{"id":60701,"date":"2019-02-28T03:08:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/i-used-a-mercedes-benz-as-a-mario-kart-controller-and-it-was-amazing\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T03:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:08:52","slug":"i-used-a-mercedes-benz-as-a-mario-kart-controller-and-it-was-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/i-used-a-mercedes-benz-as-a-mario-kart-controller-and-it-was-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"I used a Mercedes-Benz as a Mario Kart controller, and it was amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The whizz-kids at Daimler Research Group have done something that\u2019s equal parts silly and ingenious: they\u2019ve adapted a version of Mario Kart<\/em> (the open-source SuperTuxKart<\/em><\/a>) to work on the MBUX<\/a> infotainment system of a Mercedes-Benz CLA. It plays the game on the screen to the right of the driver, who can control it with the car\u2019s steering wheel and pedals. The interior lighting system activates in sync with the starting signals in the game, the seatbelt tightens anytime you crash in the game, and the air conditioning blows cool air at you with an intensity matched to your speed in the game.<\/p>\n

I played it and I loved it.<\/p>\n

The game\u2019s frame rate isn\u2019t perfect, and by the time I got to Daimler\u2019s MWC booth, the seatbelt integration wasn\u2019t working,…<\/p>\n

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The whizz-kids at Daimler Research Group have done something that\u2019s equal parts silly and ingenious: they\u2019ve adapted a version of Mario Kart (the open-source SuperTuxKart) to work on the MBUX infotainment system of a Mercedes-Benz CLA. It plays the game on the screen to the right of the driver, who can control it with the… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t