HELLFIRE https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/renault_clio_racing_controller/ – Pen Test Partners hijack data from Renault Clio to steer, brake, and accelerate in SuperTuxKart Cybersecurity nerds figured out a way to make those at-home racing simulators even more realistic by turning an actual car into a game controller. … It was by isolating those CAN data signals sent to initialize the Clio’s brakes, steering, and acceleration that the PTP experts were able to map those controls to SuperTuxKart, a FOSS Mario Kart-like game, using Python. … Regards
Andyross Not sure just how similar, but on a recent PBS Nova 2-part episode, they detailed how they simulated a real-world auto pile-up crash. The “controllers” were a bunch of real cars just disabled and used to control robotic cars. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/ultimate-crash-test-countdown/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/ultimate-crash-test-impact/
GrumpyCanadian HELLFIRE Interesting, but it’s an awfully expensive and involved way of solving the problem that most commercial steering-type controllers don’t look or feel anything like the real thing.