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| mathsquid:
Eliminating the steering wheel is a very bad idea. In a regular car if the power steering fails you have the mechanical linkages in the steering system to fall back on. |
| NiHaoMike:
The manual version of the original Honda Insight had a joystick to control the gear shifting and electric boost/regen, but the steering was done by a wheel as usual. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: MathWizard on June 25, 2021, 01:28:57 am ---Has anyone modded their car, so that u could drive it with a gamepad, so I mean the steering and throttle are connected to the thumbsticks ? I have a bad back, and sometimes it's pretty hard to move my leg/foot when driving an automatic, if it was a standard, I'd need gear shift paddles on the steering wheel, as I could not use both legs/feet in a comfortable way. So for that matter, has any car maker, used a gamepad instead of steering wheel/pedals ? It works pretty good in video games, and I'm sure my thumbs are far quicker than my feet (Attachment Link) --- End quote --- OK, so… You've got your thumbs on the analog sticks and you're driving along, relaxed. You hit a pothole or speed bump. What happens to the analog sticks? My guess is they go all over the place. And thus, so does your car. If you had been gripping the controller tightly, you might be able to retain the relative position of thumbs to analog sticks. But that level of tight grip is unsustainable. The large "throw" of standard automotive controls makes it unlikely for small movements to destabilize the car. You have to yank the wheel far and fast to do that. A game controller is not so forgiving. Hand controls on cars are a concession made for people with no alternative, and I assume they're subject to significant regulation. As for the reaction speed of your thumbs being "far quicker" than your feet: don't be so sure. Your feet are designed to make ongoing micro-corrections as you stand, walk, etc. As you probably know, once you are an experienced driver, your feet react without any conscious thought. (As in, you feel you need more speed and your feet just do it.) I have no doubt one reaches equivalent automatism with hand controls, I just doubt that feet are inherently slower. (Related tangent: people think of their feet as being way less sensitive than their hands, but oh, how untrue that is! They're extraordinarily sensitive. Think about how we can feel a large grain of sand in a shoe. And that's despite the thickness of the skin, and often callouses!) |
| G7PSK:
Try these people they are specialists in such conversions. https://taic.co.uk/locations/aylesbury/ |
| harerod:
--- Quote from: tooki on June 27, 2021, 12:30:43 pm ---... You've got your thumbs on the analog sticks and you're driving along, relaxed. You hit a pothole or speed bump. What happens to the analog sticks? My guess is they go all over the place. And thus, so does your car. If you had been gripping the controller tightly, you might be able to retain the relative position of thumbs to analog sticks. But that level of tight grip is unsustainable. ... --- End quote --- Something in that post brought back memories of piloting aircraft. The fascinating feeling of wearing the airframe like an outer skeleton, using all appendices for the additional degrees of freedom. Pitch and roll control are usually realized via a horn that can be held with both hands, much like a steering wheel in a car or by a stick. Especially with the latter, the pilot will find a resting place for the controlling arm and hand. In smaller aircraft that might be the pilot's leg, in commercial (see Airbus standard) or military (modern fighters) there will be a very ergonomic armrest. That is to counter the effect of high-g potholes (e.g. bad weather or high-g turns). Any stick control without some kind of armrest is less than ideal. |
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