The Compensator

FTFY

though it'll probably look even worse irl, like this:

gotta say the LS is the one that looks the least worst of all the predator lexuses.

Knowing you you've already seen it @The Compensator, but I want your thoughts on this:

 

It's awesome.

They've taken their time but Porsche have finally gotten around to unveiling the 911 991.2 GTS, and it's still the 911 i'd buy.

 

The Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS Targa (bit of a mouthful) has long been my dream daily driver, these upgrades and the black roll bar thing have made me love it even more.

The GTS is a bargain in the context of the 911 lineup. It is basically a package consisting of the power kit, SPASM, PSE, etc. which are all available to buy for the Carrera S. And if you buy them separately, the C2S gets more expensive than the GTS. The power kit is, alone, worth almost 10k euronen... The RWD GTS gets the "AWD" widebody and centerlock wheels for free, so yeah, it's the one to buy.

The GT 50 Edition is meh, but the panamericana grille is welcomed.

Eh, the British and Muricans are doing okay with providing the non-German larger than four cylinder engines, they're not as rare as you'd think, but it's always a good thing to add to that list.

I was thinking in the context of the kia's competitors in Europa

More or less same size as the Optima, but I'm guessing it's gonna be the "luxury" one in Kia's lineup. In Europe, at least.

Not exactly a fan of the looks; it doesn't excite me in any way, and it's still a Kia, but nice to see a non-German-premium vehicle with more than four cylinders. The only other car is the Giulia QV. The days of V6 Mondeos and W8 Passats are long gone.

Need for Speed

Yes, laser scanning is one of three methods - two of which I didn't know about.

Still, the methods used in the development should ensure the models are precise enough to have different wheels, amirite. So I'm guessing they're lazy and just do one single type of wheel per car and spend the spared time modeling engine bays.

How about we talk about the hyper-merc instead? New pic:

that is hardly believable, nearly 500 cars some of which impossible to source extremely rare, I don't buy it at all, just like drivatars, there is no way they would invest in such a complicated coding algorithm for an insignificant change.

I am not saying you are wrong, but this is what they said about developing the cars. Just how tough is it to get a car scanned into Forza? - Roadshow

We send our car sourcing team to the ends of the Earth to find the perfect example of a car we're looking to add to the game and gather detailed references. With Forza Horizon 3 being set in Australia, we of course set out to find iconic new and classic Australian cars all over the country. Without a doubt the most elusive car was the 1951 Holden FX Ute. While these classics once roamed all over Australia, and many still do, it was exceedingly difficult to track down a perfect, pristine example. The day our sourcing expert was headed back to Sydney for his return flight to the States, we got word that one was available, about a 20-hour drive from his current location. We asked him to change his travel plans and go track it down. It was quite an adventure, and we think players will really appreciate the effort when they see this amazing piece of Australian automotive history in the game.

 

 

We have a number of different methods for sourcing cars that will be playable in Forza, depending on what kind of access is available to us. That includes CAD data provided by the manufacturer, as well as digital laser scanning, and our proprietary digital photo-tracking technology. This allows us to faithfully recreate every fine detail and subtle curve with unprecedented accuracy and beauty. We pool this information together to create the digital model of the car, taking into consideration all of its physical properties and capabilities. We take a tremendous amount of care to make sure our cars are as accurate as possible -- they need to look right, sound right and perform precisely as the real car does in the real world.

 

From sourcing to production, bug testing and polish, and finally being available either on disc or as part of a DLC pack, the general process takes around six months.

Tight roads in the Dolomites, for example, might still not be problem-free, though.

However, not actually driving the vehicle in the Alps is a sacrilege. :oook:

The grid system used in most big US cities will definitely help with the integration of this autonomous driving systems, but I imagine some of the narrow twisty roads dating back to the roman empire over here in Europe might cause a bigger headache at first.

Oh, yeah.

I remember Matt Farah saying that the Tesla was driving like a drunk driver in the canyons. lol

By 2030 will insurers want to know how many miles you plan on driving yourself in comparison to how many miles you will be a passenger in your autonomous car? It reminds me of the Audi R8 in iRobot for some reason. I just imagine in the future it will be frowned upon to put your car into manual mode and drive it yourself as it will seem (and most likely be) less safe.

Probably yes, but today, there are, as far as I know, almost no rules and laws. California prohibits any use of vehicles with no human control and foot/steering control - Uber had to tow all their autonomous cars out of San Francisco because the DMV wouldn't allow them to register the cars last month, iirc.

It was only in December that Michigan passed bills that allow manufacturers to legally operate and eventually sell autonomous vehicles. And this is only one state out of 50 or whatever the number of US states is.

Car manufacturers and start-ups are just racing against each other to do the best in the shortest time, but in reality, I don't think anyone is ready for this technology yet.

It doesn't excite me either, it actually makes me sad that this is now a thing. The future of affordable fun, enjoyable and analog motoring is coming to an end.

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We've been preparing for driverless cars for a while now, it was and is an inevitability. In a funny way it will result in safer and speedier travel and if get a move on we can get past driverless on the road cars and get to the hovering and flying types! :chuckle:

That is, until some hacker known as Ivan or Cheng will hack yo ride and send you flying off a cliff.

Is there even one car in FH3 that has that? It's like TDU2, no car there had it. According to Eden, because they had some issues with the new physics system, rendering it impossible for them to use different wheels front and rear. With the mistakes in FH3, I think it's more than likely Playground/T10 forgot about this.

Not sure. You have the game, I don't. :cheeky:

I get it that Eden couldn't do it, but all the Forza cars (starting with FM4, I think) are apparently laser-scanned... I don't believe different wheels are an issue for the game engine and devs.

Though they don't know how to pick the right files to upload, so... who knows.

I can't overlook that bookshelf, it's distracting me from everything else due to how ridiculous an idea it is. Get out.

Not even the broccoli?

What's the traffic light stopwatch good for? 0-50 drag racing? :lol:

Automakers are trying hard to keep the passengers in autonomous cars entertained. BMW's introduced a system that will tell the passengers some information about the buildings they are passing by in the car if the point their finger at it. They say that the BMW Connected app will let people order stuff from Amazon, too. But it's possible to order on Amazon right now, via Amazon's own app. How's that an innovation? :oook:

'tis an Audi developed in conjuction with nVidia that learns from the driver's driving habits and is afterwards self-learning. Audi's been using nVidia chips for some time already, and the upcoming A8 will be able to drive itself in traffic jams and will feature a second-gen virtual cockpit with a new tegra chip from nVidia. Level-4 autonomous vehicle from Audi & nvidia should hit the roads in 2020.

Basically every company is working on autonomous cars now. It's all the same, just different names lol

McLaren 'P14', to be revealed in March:

It's reported to be lighter than the 650S and more powerful than the 675LT.

The rear rims on the 930 should be different from the fronts - they should be more deep-dished.

Any real need to include a Turbo and a Turbo S? Surely a different Porsche would have been preferable, unless they're different model years :hmmm:

Yes, one is a 1982 and the other a 2014 model.

Think the Cayman is the only new Porsche in Forza? No 991 GT3 or GT3 RS. But they decided to give the players two Porsche SUVs and a brand new Opel.

Cool style, very mysterious looking.

thank.

spotted this beast yesterday.

Faraday does not seem to me like a healthy and reputable company to me. Meh, not interested. 0/10

I wonder if anyone who went ahead with the later version discovered anything else interesting that's still in development/testing stages...

yes, some Porsches and others. Porsche cars found in update files : forza