Million £ driving simulator

[Phil]

just had the pleasure of going on the uni`s driving simulator. Million quids worth. it`s the closest you get to driving a car whilst not driving a car if you know what i mean.
it looked like something out of NASA. piccies to follow

 

[Phil]

 

[Phil]

 

[brucelee]

god mate d you go to uni or NASA

 

[brucelee]

Whats its purpose mate without trying to sound daft lol

 

[Phil]

inside it was a jaguar s type donate from jaguar full car just with the front end chopped in half. went with Paul today and had a go on it. there was this numpty there that decided he was going to race every car on the dual carrigeway on the hard shoulder and the grass at 130 mph. i have never laughed as much when he got fed up with the hard shoulder he went onto the other carridge way and did over a ton into the oncoming cars?? please someone stop me if i ever say i am off to be a driving instructor

 

[brucelee]

nice bet it was good blasting in a jaguar is it for training people advanced driving or something

 

[Phil]

Whats its purpose mate without trying to sound daft lol

http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/research/facilities/uolds/

they do studies into all sorts mate. from people falling asleep at the wheel to if red bull makes you drive better also the affects from those signs over the motorway that give you information (matrix boards)

 

[brucelee]

sweet what they do fill yo up on red bull then leave you to it for 48hrs see if you fall asleep and keep flashing signs in front of your eyes lol

 

[Adam W]

Whats its purpose mate without trying to sound daft lol

Yeah wouldn't it be more realistic to drive something less like a simulator and more like, say, a car?
Surely you could get get several S type Jaguars for a million quid?

 

[Phil]

sweet what they do fill yo up on red bull then leave you to it for 48hrs see if you fall asleep

they are trialling women and a certain drink at the moment over a few weeks to see if the drink works maybee they are seeing if they can parallel park after drinking it

 

[Phil]

Yeah wouldn't it be more realistic to drive something less like a simulator and more like, say, a car?
Surely you could get get several S type Jaguars for a million quid?

just a few

 

[brucelee]

good at least somebody is trying to teach them how to drive properly without the make up in one hand and the mobile in the other maybe it will give them wings?

 

[Phil]

good at least somebody is trying to teach them how to drive properly without the make up in one hand and the mobile in the other maybe it will give them wings?

oh thats another, affects on crashes etc due to sat navs mobile phones etc. even the mirrors have the roda in real time in them with the cars etc. quite impressed really. toyota have built one but won`t let on how much it cost. the guy reckons it would have been around £250 million pounds, now thats a whole load of cars

 

[brucelee]

yeah still worth it if it teaches the other side how to drive

would love a go at one for fast jets ie military style lol

 

[Phil]

yeah still worth it if it teaches the other side how to drive

would love a go at one for fast jets ie military style lol

you and me both mate the last flight simulator I had a go on was the zx81 now thats a blast from the past.

 

[brucelee]

yep had one of those spent many a night messing with them

and commodores with the games that crashed it was a effort just to get a game completed for all the crashes

the first games console i ever had was a binatone and basically it was white blocks on a black sceen haha shooting, tennis etc

 

[Phil]

yep had one of those spent many a night messing with them

and commodores with the games that crashed it was a effort just to get a game completed for all the crashes

the first games console i ever had was a binatone and basically it was white blocks on a black sceen haha shooting, tennis etc

i had one of those stick game consoles as a kid too mate. gees how old eh? 37 years old and this threads making me feel 80

 

[brucelee]

yes mate know the feeling you could shoot the gun on it behind you or at the roof and still hit the duck (well White Pixelated block on the screen)

back in the day mate

 

[Phil]

not exactly a ps3 or x box mate eh

 

[Phil]

and this one was a posh as the queen when it came out in colour

 

[brucelee]

yep thats the one where do you find this stuff mate that takes me back to me and my 2 bruvs fighting over whose go lol

It was a XBOX then lol

 

[brucelee]

yeah and spectrums where amazing when you first saw one as they actually had characters in there games
and the first computers I seen where at school or the COOP quality house we learned how to right a program for our name then go there and put it on all the computers
the first computers where apple, BBCs and amstrads very very basic

 

[Paul.M]

It was like an over sized computer game. I only went to sign up for the drink driving to see how much free booze I could down before crashing, but all of them have been taken up .

Ps, really good wiring system.

 

[millwall ken]

just had the pleasure of going on the uni`s driving simulator. Million quids worth. it`s the closest you get to driving a car whilst not driving a car if you know what i mean.
it looked like something out of NASA. piccies to follow

For **** sake Phil how do you manage all of these things - Are you like an A-list Sparkie or something? If you're not getting your hands on the BGB months before us mere mortals; then you're doing things like this. Got any vacancies???

 

[Phil]

For **** sake Phil how do you manage all of these things - Are you like an A-list Sparkie or something? If you're not getting your hands on the BGB months before us mere mortals; then you're doing things like this. Got any vacancies???

it was on the uni website mate. I need to find a flight sim next then the real fun begins signed up for the trials for the driving simulator in my lunch break. a tenner an hour to sit in the and not a splinter or dirty hand in sight

 

[brucelee]

phil mate you never cease to amaze me

That must be some Uni if it can afford something like this, do robots serve you in the canteen and you drive about on nuclear powered skateboards from one lecture to another

 

[Phil]

phil mate you never cease to amaze me

That must be some Uni if it can afford something like this, do robots serve you in the canteen and you drive about on nuclear powered skateboards from one lecture to another

I walk but the mother in law has a special broom

 

[Phil]

as for the canteen, i stay out mate tbh. overpriced food. would be nearly 50 quid a week if i had lunch in there every day. so its a pack up and some of those nescafe 3 in 1 coffees for me.

 

[brucelee]

hi phil yeah mate the food is always rough in them canteens i would do the same as you

 

[alarm man]

anyone remember the philips videopac,got one in 80/81 its was class,mam was pa to md and we got one free,probably worth a fortune now,got ditched for a commodore 64 a couple of years later

 

[Kamikaze]

For **** sake Phil how do you manage all of these things - Are you like an A-list Sparkie or something? If you're not getting your hands on the BGB months before us mere mortals; then you're doing things like this. Got any vacancies???

Ken, get yourself down to BAE Systems. They are looking for mockpit pilots.

[video=youtube;aIz5z9VoLJU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIz5z9VoLJU[/video]

The rocket assisted ejector seat uses a small, controlled explosive to fracture and remove the canopy clear of the soon to be ejected (guess who?). The mockpit whizzes along at a cool 966 kilometres per hour. It proved that just 3 seconds after pulling the armed eject handle, the ejectee would be safely strap-hanging from a parachute well clear of the doomed canopy. In thirty test runs the system has passed all its tests. Good job I don’t drive faster than my guardian angel can fly!

 

[Phil]

anyone remember the philips videopac,got one in 80/81 its was class,mam was pa to md and we got one free,probably worth a fortune now,got ditched for a commodore 64 a couple of years later

nothing quite sounds the same as one of those tape machines in the old comps wailing away

 

[Phil]

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[Phil]

now that`s a real computer

 

[alarm man]

nothing quite sounds the same as one of those tape machines in the old comps wailing away

the golf game was the best,mind i prefered all the ajax fc stuff mam used to come back with than the new games,but it was way ahead of its time,made some good stuff did philips,we had one of the early cd players too,great if you liked crap music(1982),i remember putting jam on them as they said it would play with it on,cant scratch them etc..the cd quality was better then than it is now..how many people have scratched jumpy cd's

 

[Phil]

the golf game was the best,mind i prefered all the ajax fc stuff mam used to come back with than the new games,but it was way ahead of its time,made some good stuff did philips,we had one of the early cd players too,great if you liked crap music(1982),i remember putting jam on them as they said it would play with it on,cant scratch them etc..the cd quality was better then than it is now..how many people have scratched jumpy cd's

i remember getting the jam out to try it but had better thoughts when i had spent all my paper round money buying the cd player still got nearly a thousand 78`s in the loft, and the don`t jump like the (un-scratch-able) cd`s

 

[millwall ken]

phil mate you never cease to amaze me

That must be some Uni if it can afford something like this, do robots serve you in the canteen and you drive about on nuclear powered skateboards from one lecture to another

(Phil mate you never cease to amaze me), Me neither Bruce mate, hence the post.

 

[alarm man]

if vinyl jumped it had character.. and the sleeves with cd were rubbish

 

[Phil]

if vinyl jumped it had character.. and the sleeves with cd were rubbish

i love that noise when the record first went on my dad has got one of those usb record players so he can convert all his stuff into mp3`s. i would borrow it off him but would need a year off to transfer my gear over to it