A high dashboard/low pov generally has one advantage, it can cover up parts of the screen you don’t need to refresh/post process, and in early racing games/ onboard sims, I has the feeling that was the very idea (aside from _IMMERSION_™)
Since you can switch inbetween pov’s nowadays, that doesn’t make sense anymore. It makes life, on the contrary, even harder:
They apply different filters based on internal/external pov, and even apply different audio filters (esp. noticeable in them Forzas, where engines sound differently in driver’s seat/3rd person).
So, not sure why, maybe they want to trick the player into feeling more speeeeeeed because everything looks larger?..
The “Gran” in Gran Turismo refers actually to a Gran, an 81-year-old woman. She has shrunken a little from age and can only just barely see over the wheel
race car seating is also kinda low for weight reasons and the sport favors small drivers. Also you cant really tell how close the wheel is supposed to be in cockpit view. The one pictured is like cronenburging out towards the driver.
But I haven’t compared how GT treats regular cars so maybe they just assume you are grann’ed up as mikey says.
certainly but IRL you can look around, and generally have a much wider field of view, which makes going for hyper realistic placement in a video game on a screen detract from actual playability where a comparatively small windshield in reality wouldn’t affect you nearly as much
tbh this is why I’m thankful for the “behind the steering wheel” view Forza Horizon 4 added, which, granted, is much less realistic, but improves driving visibility significantly (and works great with a wheel setup, too) - and even forza’s normal cockpit view is seated much more centrally to the windscreen than this footage on most vehicles, both feel like better choices in the game medium, to me
Some sims have these as translucent banners, i.e. you can see them, but they are not as intrusive as you may think. Plus, they often are used as sunvisors/polarization filters.
Also, if you haven’t seen it, Indycar had some nice visor cam experiments in the past.
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… did you pay attention to the markerboards for the corners?
If not, do yorself a favor and watch a lap again.
… and then i just noticed that F1 has that as well by now!
… and then watch this:
… and then this:
… aaand to tip it off, these epic laps, onboard the C7R, at night, at DAYTOOOONNNAAAAAAAAA:
And the way how it works is pretty cool, since it color-codes them according to rules which i assume are based on closing speeds/gaps estimation.
It is basically soft-AI applied to your run-of-the-mill rearview camera, like one step up from the outboard rearview mirrors indicating traffic the car can sense by distance sensors or radar.
Especially with the blindingly bright lights you can see in these shots, the arrows indicating where the car is does give the driver a real advantage over those who haven’t got such a system.
Random question but is 32k+ miles too much to purchase a used car? I know it depends on a lot of factors but just as a general rule should you kick the tires on a car with that many miles or naw?
I’d still take it to an independent shop and get it looked over — they’ll probably charge less than a hundred bucks and it’s easy to make that back by negotiating free repairs or price. Also gives you peace of mind you’re not buying a lemon.
My standard advice:
Get a mechanic to go over it.
look at your major service intervals and see if anything is coming up you don’t wanna deal with right away.
Ask about what services have been done, oil change interval etc.
Look at the carfax to double check its been taken car of and not crashed.
See what people online say are the car’s major problems if any.
Id buy a well cared for Toyota at 100K miles no problem.
If it’s a french or italian car, 32k miles should equate a $ lost per mile, i.e. if it was 20k new, you should get 12k for taking it…
… jokes on me though, i would have paid more already even if that was the case.
doolittle’s recommendation + a Testdrive (unlimited)(j/k) cannot be replaced by any help or Info you get from us… after all, what good is a used car you don’t like using/driving it?
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Also, the best car isn’t necessarily the most frugal or reliable car… my french comfy-barge is an attention-craving brat (no, not literally/the subaru) i’ve sunk up to 2k+ per year into it (repair costs alone, mind you, gas and insurance comes on top) but i can’t help it, when it takes me back home without a hiccup, plus a few miles where i could stretch its legs to 130mph… then i know why it is good that i am a fool/an idiot for letting it get away with so many things… because if not, we wouldn’t have made that ride together after all, and it is the things we do that we remember fondly, isn’t it?
That is absolutely not the song that plays in your head when you shell out another 1000 bucks, believe me…)
tl;dr:
Get it checked out, drive it, leave it or love it.
