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selnor on 05 March 2009
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WereKitten said:
selnor said:
WereKitten said:

"The depth of field shifts as the car reaches top speed, the camera subtly moving back to mimic the driver's head being forced back by the velocity..."

Please, never put "serious racers" together with what transpires from the previous IGN quote.

There's no such thing in real physics as being forced back by the velocity: the apparent force is proportional to the _acceleration_

 

 Funny. I have been in a doubled drive F50. If your floor it yes absolutely your head is forced back. It's called G-force.

Funny, being a theoretical physicist and having written software and built hardware for pro-level flight simulators you would think I would know what I'm talking about :)

Pleeease, go back and dust your high-school physics textbooks...

I couldnt care less what you've studied. Anyone who has been in a car with more than 200bhp will tell you, floor it and your head will be thrown back. Thats what the game simulates. You obviously havent watched the vid in the OP. The racing driver who has experienced all the movements a driver feels in a cockpit is the guy behind this.

Hell as and F1 fan for more than 15 years, it's common sense to know that those guys physicaly cant control there heads because of the force. And when F1 drivers brake hard, they can blackout for up to 1.4 seconds. Dont believe me go look it up.

You dont need degrees when you have driver accounts and personal experience. I dont need a degree to drive a car. So quit with the put downs.

 EDIT: Accelerating in an F50 provides just shy of 1 G-force. Cornering at high speeds can provide upto 3 G-forces, and F1 drivers during a race can experience regular bouts of up to 5 G's.