Driving with a playstation controller
Driving with a playstation controller
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24lemons

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2,913 posts

206 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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Sat here while my girlfriend drives back down the m6 you'd be forgiven for thinking she was driving with a playstation controller instead of a steering wheel and peddles. Throttle is either on or off, no inbetween and steering inputs are so sudden I'm surprised I haven't hit my head against the side window yet. I really want I say something but if I do I fear it will make the journey even less tolerable than it is at the moment! I think I'll sit here and silently simmer!

ludicrous speed

959 posts

215 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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Good luck...

Marf

22,907 posts

262 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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Crap analogy using a playstation controller given all the buttons are analog biggrin

mnkiboy

4,409 posts

187 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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You've done something wrong. You need to figure out what it is before she kills you.

Have you perhaps mentioned she's putting on weight? Or she looks like her mum? Did you stare at another girls chest, thinking she wouldn't notice? Did you eat the last Rolo?

Have you checked it's not her birthday?

Panda76

2,583 posts

171 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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Tbh my missus puts the fear of god into me with her driving.Passes parked cars too close and is a late braker.I,ve often pushed my foot into the footwell begging for a brake pedal,she really does leave it last minute.How she hasn't rear ended someone yet is beyond me.

Yet when she comes out with me she will say I,m driving too fast down the lanes.After checking the speedo I will be doing 60-65mph where possible and slower anywhere else.It's not like I,m chucking the car around like a rally driver with rugrat in the back and the dog in the boot.
However if she is driving down the lanes in her car she will be doing the same speed and thats somehow acceptable confused I have pointed this out before only to be told I drive faster WTF !!!!
Women laugh

Pints

18,448 posts

215 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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mnkiboy said:
Did you stare at another girls chest?
They always notice, even if you're wearing dark glasses and use peripheral vision (not strictly staring then, is it?). I don't know they do it. irked

24lemons

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2,913 posts

206 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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Marf said:
Crap analogy using a playstation controller given all the buttons are analog biggrin
This is true. I was thinking of the old days playing te original f1 using the d-pad!

Dont think I've done anything wrong except getting drink at her aunts house last night but to be fair her uncle kept offering whiskey and it would have been rude not to accept. I also remembered to open the window when I farted in their bathroom so it's not that.

joewilliams

2,004 posts

222 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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24lemons said:
Throttle is either on or off, no inbetween and steering inputs are so sudden I'm surprised I haven't hit my head against the side window yet.
That's normal isn't it?

I often get a nice pendulum movement going when my wife is driving; it's like she just mashes the throttle every few seconds to keep her speed up then takes her foot off it again.

24lemons

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2,913 posts

206 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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joewilliams said:
That's normal isn't it?

I often get a nice pendulum movement going when my wife is driving; it's like she just mashes the throttle every few seconds to keep her speed up then takes her foot off it again.
That's exactly whats happening here! Accelerate, brake, accelerate harder, turn, brake etc etc... No smoothness at all. It's really pissing me off now but I know if I said something I'd be blamed for something! Nearly home and I can't wait!

bobbylondonuk

2,204 posts

211 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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24lemons said:
That's exactly whats happening here! Accelerate, brake, accelerate harder, turn, brake etc etc... No smoothness at all. It's really pissing me off now but I know if I said something I'd be blamed for something! Nearly home and I can't wait!
DO NOT SAY A WORD!

shovelheadrob

1,564 posts

192 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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I thought this was going to refer to a vehicle I saw recently, the guy driving had a joystick pad on the drivers side door (New VW Caravelle) I initially thought he was playing a console game, but I realised when I was along side that it was a fully functioning control system as he was severely handicapped. It is truly impressive how these things have come such a long way from rods & cables attatched to the foot pedals, this was actually doing the steering as well!

24lemons

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2,913 posts

206 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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Made it home in the end. Bloody hell! That's the first long drive we've done together and the last for a while as well!

She's quite small and she also pushes herself back in the drivers seat by pushing down on the wheel and "jumping" back. I was astonished the first time I saw this but of course said nothing for fear of an earful!

Anyway, too early for beer?!!

mnkiboy

4,409 posts

187 months

Friday 18th November 2011
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It's never too early for beer.