So this is going to cause Nissan's to "Crash" more often? lol

Nice!!

Good idea!! ^_^

Cars...? Nigga, it's called looking at traffic. Now we all gonna die. Good job Nissan/M$. And I'd rather be playing on a Revolution/GCN before I go down... :D @ JacenSolo

Hmm... Wouldn't this mean that Sony or Nintendo could sue Microsoft/Nissan over Antitrust ^_^... Besides, I would rather have the Game Cube instead of the Xbox.

Haha. Good point. Well... the first one anyway =p

The sad thing is, that's not too far from reality.

I take it your not a game cube fan ^_^

But yeah, if this goes ahead, I can see someone getting sued over antitrust... unless Nissan makes it possible to use a different console.

"I take it your not a game cube fan ^_^"

Lol, I just realized my comment sound like that. On the contrary, I have a GCN. I never had a PS2 or an XBOX, although I did want an XBOX. I wouldn't really call myself a fan though, so I guess you were right.

I was thinking GCN vs. XBOX 360 when I made that comment. That's no contest IMO. =)

I don't have a 360 :P So I can't compare.

But I have a GC, a Xbox and a PS1... and, personally, I thin each has their ups and downs... but GC is smaller and (slighty) faster IMO... so it wins ^_^

And you can play Mario Party on a GCN. ^.^

"The blue windscreen of death."

Awsome :D

I just had to find and put this in here...

"At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the

computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating, "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they painted new lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull ove r to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.

For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "CarNT," but then you would have to buy more seats.

6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but it would only run on five percent of the roads.

7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "general protect ion fault" warning light.

8. The airbag system would ask, "Are you sure?" before deploying.

9. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the antenna.

10. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally Road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.

11. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

12. You'd have to press the "start" button to turn the engine off."

Ah! An oldie but an oldie!
Molly
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Not to mention that you'd need to activate your car... and if you change more then 2 or 3 pieces of hardware, you'd hafta reactivate it.

Number 12 is already in practice Infinity M35.

Otherwise, only 11 more to go..

I would like to note that the latest issue of APC (Australian computing mag) contained a video of a holden car with Windows embedded on it... What's next?

#8.

Next up, Boeing offers a 737 with MS Flight Simulator already integrated...

Craptacular.

This is a spectacularly bad idea.

Once after a monster truck rally, I was watching attendees leave the parking lot. The traffic was rather conjested, and a number of guys--undoubedtly under the influence of what they'd just watched--thought it prudent to slip into four-wheel-drive and climb over the burm surrounding the lot in order to make a quick escape.

There's a segment of the human population who have a hard time cleanly separating fantasy from reality and all the more so when the controls for both realms are identical.

Of course, I do not object. I eagerly anticipate that the entertainment value of misuse will far outweigh any damage it will cause.

lmao...

Good thing Grand Theft Auto isn't included.

Just watch-out for the 25 cent slot next to the steering wheel... and the EULA from MS that says you don't really own the car, you are merely paying for the content within :P

Hey! I OWN my copy of windows, regardless of what Microsoft says :P

Wow is this a bad idea.

People bring games into too many places as it is.

It's a shame to see a kid sitting some where playing a gameboy instead of playing or doing something outside.

No wonder 62% of America is obese.

Wow. Again, I completely agree.

I think games are a waste of time and energy.

Oh yeah, outside so they can get kidnapped, shot, hit by a car, manipulated by someone to get poisoned by food, and get hurt.. unless you wear a helmet, knee pads, and safety gear.

Yeah, why don't YOU go outside.. Go play in traffic or something..

Kids are obese because parents are obese and they don't care. Going outside has very little to do with whether or not you are obese. You can excercise and stay active, and what's outside? Its boring. No halloween, no eaaster egg hunts, there isn't anything to do..

I think its a stupid idea too, but only from the point of practicality, like using the real car controls to run the game.. I have news for you this, this idea is already in practice in many cars..

Don't you ever watch pimp my ride?

*sighs*

Children should be outside, playing, spending time with friends. Not on Gameboys, computers or something like that. The game industry has made us all lazy.

When I was a kid, it was a soccer ball, not a game boy... now it's the other way round.

"Oh yeah, outside so they can get kidnapped, shot, hit by a car, manipulated by someone to get poisoned by food, and get hurt.. unless you wear a helmet, knee pads, and safety gear."
Do you always look at the negatives? Your worse then my mum...

"Kids are obese because parents are obese and they don't care. Going outside has very little to do with whether or not you are obese. You can excercise and stay active, and what's outside? Its boring. No halloween, no eaaster egg hunts, there isn't anything to do.."
What's outside? Nature.

"I think its a stupid idea too, but only from the point of practicality, like using the real car controls to run the game.. I have news for you this, this idea is already in practice in many cars.."
Gimme a proper Xbox controler over a steering wheel any day.

Man...

As if my driving isn't bad enough after playing Burnout 3 and NFS:MW.... now I get to do it in an actual *car*.

They should just revoke my license...

Right.
Now.

...before that chick going 40 on the highway into work gets traffic-checked into the rails, or I "california-stop" that idiot on his celly.

OMG! That is so funny..

This is classic :)

I think it's a neat concept. And for all those worrying about people using it while driving, as the article says - it can only be used while the car is in park. Furhermore, noone, noone is stupid enough to fire up a game while they're driving, even if it could be done. Street racing cars and people into car modding have done stuff like this for the longest time. They have laptops built in, PS2s built in, you think of it, they've got it.....and they CAN play while they're driving, but it's more for the passenger when the car is in motion :D
It's just a cool idea to actually have it integrate with car electronics....and I don't think anything will go wrong, at least not so far as to 'link' the xbox with the controls and vice versa when the car IS in motion. LEts face it people...it's 2K6 and they've got to find SOMETHING to catch peoples eyes, and tastes.

I disagree. I'm sure somewhere that there is a script kiddy that is both smart enough to hack the system to be usable while the car is in drive and also stupid enough to then actually try to play it while the car is in motion. Never underestimate the stupidity of the human race.

Can the driver play other games too besides a racing game??? Wouldn't make any sense to make a car with 360 that plays only one game!

http://www.flexbeta.net/...ges/Nissan_Urge_360.jpg

^^ image

Please let that picture be from the BEGINNING of the production of the car. I'm not riding in Willy Wonka's jalopy.

Why would you want to sit in your car and play a driving game? Just drive. I'm trying to picture some guy sitting parked in his car, turning the steering wheel wildly and weaving back and forth. That would make a person look really foolish if you ask me. Like a kid sitting behind the wheel making vroom vroom noises.

ah think of it this way, test driving ^^;

yeah like for a driving school...

man they should make this for burnout!

Burnout 3 though...Burnout: Revenge sucked ass.

Well I suppose with the high gas prices...

Hmm.. Interesting idea, new Driver's Ed cars with built in simulators, that is actually a good idea. They can be behind the actual car they will be driving, and its like a last minute "refresher" to make sure they are comfortable. This could be the start of something..

I can foresee cops pulling you over..

"Sir, do you know you were changing lanes without signalling?"

"Why no officer, thank you for reminding me"

"Not so fast, you got a simulator, turn the simulator on, and lets take a little road test..."

So instead of a ticket, or in addition to law enforcement could give you an "on stop" simulator course.

Come on, own up. This is one of those "link whoring" type posts like the MS to buy Opera one right?
Molly
Http://www.mollyzine.com

How about the one about MS doing a total buyout of Apple?

I predicted this a few years ago, Apple may very well be Applesoft...

They can't. The EU would go nuts. MS would be even more impossible to compete with--even open source OSes would be in trouble. This would open up all sorts of lawsuits against them, even some staunch MS supporters will turn anti-MS, and geez the press would go nuts. It is almost ironic that, in a way, MS NEEDS Apple in order to survive.

That would be why Microsoft invested $150 million to keep Apple alive a few years back.

The last thing we need is a Nissan overheating and crashing. :P

Or to go to a blue screen while actually driving the car and it switches to game mode while doing 75mph on the freeway!

I think this could be a bad move due to the way in wich electronics(software) can be infected today. Look at Palms and Cellphones. Where there is a will, there is a way to infect.

IMO

Or some hacker will change it so that it won't disable the controls during a real drive, and the camera positioned on the front of the car, will be transmitted to the 360 screen, and you could literally drive by wire.. Interesting.

Someone will figure a way to remove the limitations, and they will joy ride a car from the back seat....

Wow man thats cool. I love xBox and its now its in Nissan. Awesome.

That's sad. Kinda cool, but when you really think about it, mostly sad.

I can just see drivers holding up traffic playing Project Gotham Racing long after the light has turned green. =p

Yeah I agree with you...sounds too funny and dumb haha

I wouldn't mind it if it was in the back of a nissan minivan, but IMHO it should be illegal to have a device like an xbox in the front seat.

illegal? It's downright dangerous.

Me + Caffiene + NFS:MW in the car is *not* a good idea...I don't care where yer from.

Its already illegal, anything which impairs a driver to keep their eyes on the road. GPS devices, TV's, Video Screens, are all illegal.

They aren't supposed to be in use where the driver can see them.

Hmm, the highway isn't NFS:MW?

DOH!