A joystick? It'll never work because they'll never manage to fit a full size airbag to the end of one!
Seriously though, I think I'll always prefer a proper wheel - I just can't imagine enjoying "spirited" driving using a joystick - Might as well stay at home and play Gran Turismo!
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In the future, when the Mysterons have attacked earth, we will all be driving around backwards in Spectrum Pursuit Vehicles
To drive backwards it is of course equiped with a joystick.
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But in both the SPC (the little red one) and the MSV (the large white one) we will be driving forward with steering wheels (or close to it).
Also, I seem to recall that the Angels did not have joysticks and as I recall I think all Thunderbirds had steering wheels.
So I reckon its not conclusive.
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Ah! But
TB1 had levers, TB2 had a wheel, TB3 had buttons, TB4 had a flight yoke, and of course TB5 went nowhere so had nothing.
Cant for the life of me remember what the Mole used.
Seems to me that brains went to several car design schools.
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Pretty sure that the mole had joystick.
Are you sure that TB3 had just buttons ? Although you're right, TB1 did have levers.
Also, I have a feeling that TB5 had a joystick, since they did have a problem with it in one episode.
Cloudbase had levers.
Stingray had a sort of steering wheel, as did XL5.
The Enterprise had buttons, although it could be overridden with a joystick.
Starfighters had a joystick.
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what did the Eagles on Moonbase Alpha have?
Also in UFO
Strikers car had a steering wheel, but what did the interceptors have?
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The Eagles had joysticks.
Don't remember about Striker's car.
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Seems to me that brains went to several car design schools.
Good job he didn't go to the Bangle school of vehicle design!
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Study the shape and styling q's of TB2, and then look at a Bangle beemer. You may be suprised.
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TB2 was my favourite. I used to run around the playground (about 32 years ago I might add) with my arms stretched forwards, whereas all the others wanted to be TB1 or TB3. A sense of flexibility in service delivery they did not have....
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American cars in the fifties had steering wheels that controlled the accelerator. You had to move them from side to side even on a straight road to keep the car moving.
I know because I've seen it on the movies.
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Remove the rim from a Citroen (can't remember which model) single-spoke steering wheel and you have a "joystick" ~ don't you?
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L\'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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All citroens had only one spoke until recently. DS, GS, CX, BX, Visa. Think 2CV may have had a two spokes though?
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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You're all mad. -- Adam
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No, just underemployed.
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That completely undermines my position to insult you lot then!
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A few, but most famously the DS. And no you dont have a Joystick, you have a lever.
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A few, but most famously the DS. And no you dont have a Joystick, you have a lever.
What's the difference between a joystick moving in one plane only and a lever? They're both a rod with a pivot at one end.
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>> A few, but most famously the DS. And no you dont >> have a Joystick, you have a lever. >> What's the difference between a joystick moving in one plane only and a lever? They're both a rod with a pivot at one end.
Not at all. a Joystick is a rod with a BALL JOINT at the enbd and has the ability to move in any direction.
A lever however can only move through one plane becuase it is limited by its pivot.
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"A lever however can only move through one plane becuase it is limited by its pivot."
But as it is used for steering wouldn't it then be known as a "Tiller"?. I seem to remember a story about very early cars being available with tillers only, then some manufacturer decided to use a wheel and there was a huge (well, huge among the minute number of drivers at the time) uproar about the change from Tiller to Steering wheel.
The RHD/LHD issue has already been addressed, just get a McLaren F1. I don't remember the make, but there was a concept car with a movable steering console that could make the vehicle RHD or LHD just by sliding it to either end.
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"you dont have a Joystick, you have a lever"
I think the idea of the joystick is that is steers in one plane, and accelerates/brakes in the other, thereby eliminating the equivalent of left-foot braking :-(
Although handbrake turns should still be possible :-)
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A pointless waste of development time and energy.
Not at all. Imagine being able to drive your car with a Playstation joypad. A little stick to steer. Button A to accelerate and B to brake. If you get bored driving you can just hand the joypad over to the missus in the passenger seat. The kids could even drive from the back. No more LRD/RHD problems. Plenty of extra buttons to control the stereo, cruise, tiptronic shift etc. And the "pause" function would come in very handy.
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~If you get bored driving you can just hand the joypad over to the missus in the passenger seat.
What you really need is a Playstation joystick to control the missus.
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Early Edwardian cars had tillers, like small boats. Then along came wheels, because they found, as with larger ships, they gave more control.
But there is no need for the wheel to be at 90 degrees to the fore/aft line - small launches often have the wheel mounted on the side, turned sideways.
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Of course the next step with be a Bluetooth transponder transplanted into the back of the neck enabling control of the major functions of the car by simple thought, might be necessary to have an RS232, USB or Firewire socket somewhere in the spine as a back up, (dont worry ladies, it will be hidden by the strap of your thong). Have to be careful as to how the car translates the thoughts though, i.e. "That's an attractive young lady driving that Porsche" could be interpreted as "flat out away from the lights until the next roundabout" and "damm I have left my brief case at home" could be "emergency stop and instant U-turn".
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"might be necessary to have an RS232, USB or Firewire socket somewhere in the spine as a back up, (dont worry ladies, it will be hidden by the strap of your thong"
Would that make Nicolle "Plug and Play"?
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"might be necessary to have an RS232, USB or Firewire socket somewhere in the spine as a back up, (dont worry ladies, it will be hidden by the strap of your thong" Would that make Nicolle "Plug and Play"?
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Perhaps "plug", might have to do a bit of tweaking to achieve "play".
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