Hacker News Reader

Comment by wly_cdgr | Hacker News Reader

That could be very interesting and fun - compelling even. Many upsides. But without risk to life or limb and without a test of human (or monkey, or dog, or self aware AI, etc) emotional and psychological and spiritual and physical limits in real time, it could never be cool or sexy or glamorous or badass or epic or moving.

View on HN

Put the humans into multi-axis simulators. And show them sweating. It will be the same physical battle, but without the risk to their life.

Then it won’t be the same mental battle, which means it won’t be the same physical battle.

Edit to add: you also need a lot more than multi axis simulators for acceleration. A centrifuge providing multiple Gs, for example, is a very different feeling from from being tilted backwards in a simulator.

The only point to automobile racing is the risk to life. Otherwise we’re just driving around.

No, that's not true. Racing is a game of skill. It just happens it involves some risks.

If risk was the point, people wouldn't be expending so much effort to make racing safer.

And trust me, most drivers do not have a death wish. It is all about figuring out how to learn to drive as close to limits of traction as possible without crossing it.

Racing is not a game. See, Hemingway. I’m out there every other Saturday night because it makes me feel alive.

I appreciate people trying to make it safer, but if they ever make it safe I’ll probably take up bullfighting.

This is basically what maze-racing robots are! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

Reply on news.ycombinator.com