drmosh
11-04-2010, 05:08 PM
In case you are unaware, Mitsubishi is probably the first to launch a promo where you can test drive one of their vehicles online.
The Outlander Sport Live Drive.
http://www.socalevo.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10003/normal_livedrivecropped.jpg
You have to wait in a queue with other people but during that wait you can either practice driving the car around in a virtual terminal or watch other people drive the car around from various angles.
I was actually surprised at how responsive the car was, the car responded fairly quickly.Â* The drive consisted of driving towards set destinations or goals, you had about a minute and half to do your test drive, after that they tallied how many goals or targets you hit and you could view your achievements compared to others on a Leaderboard on Mitsubishi's Facebook page.
There was a lot of technology involved to make this work.Â* A custom application was used to control the site and also custom apps were written to control the actual car itself.Â* There's a video on Mitsu's Facebook page showing how they control the gear shift level for forward and reverse, pretty interesting.Â* Â* The car itself is under constant brakes, and to actually move forward the brakes are actually released and the gas depressed by the robotic control inside the vehicle.
Overall I was impressed by how the whole thing worked together.Â* Great job to the Mitsu Marketing team.
Video of Live Drive gear control:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C5vA_S-f9Q
The Outlander Sport Live Drive.
http://www.socalevo.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10003/normal_livedrivecropped.jpg
You have to wait in a queue with other people but during that wait you can either practice driving the car around in a virtual terminal or watch other people drive the car around from various angles.
I was actually surprised at how responsive the car was, the car responded fairly quickly.Â* The drive consisted of driving towards set destinations or goals, you had about a minute and half to do your test drive, after that they tallied how many goals or targets you hit and you could view your achievements compared to others on a Leaderboard on Mitsubishi's Facebook page.
There was a lot of technology involved to make this work.Â* A custom application was used to control the site and also custom apps were written to control the actual car itself.Â* There's a video on Mitsu's Facebook page showing how they control the gear shift level for forward and reverse, pretty interesting.Â* Â* The car itself is under constant brakes, and to actually move forward the brakes are actually released and the gas depressed by the robotic control inside the vehicle.
Overall I was impressed by how the whole thing worked together.Â* Great job to the Mitsu Marketing team.
Video of Live Drive gear control:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C5vA_S-f9Q