For, once the engine block and the gearbox are gone, the game of car design changes.
Despite hiccups in markets such as Brazil and Asia, the great game in car making is to develop global reach.
It opens with a grandmother, Eve, playing a car game with her grandchildren, Philip, aged seven, and Daisy, aged three.
The almost forgotten car game resumes and veers wildly out of control.
Not a car game (that could be fun but dangerous if people were inspired to play it while driving), but an app that challenged you and your friends to an on-foot race.
With regards to whether Toyota's setback could give GM an edge in the electric car game, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said, "I think that our No. 1 competitor has some problems with their technology, and I do think that it very definitely opens a window of opportunity for us to be first to market with a genuine plug-in hybrid, " which sounds like fightin' words, if you ask us.
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For example, he's partnered with Gillette to create an online car racing game for Nascar aficionados.
More recently with the iPhone, Apple once again changed the rules of the in-car infotainment game.
Lab members originally wrote the software in 2011 for a toy car racing game, in which small virtual cars zoom around a tabletop, realistically rounding behind books and flying off paper ramps.
And I get in the car after the game, and she's got on different earrings.
As soon as you hop into a car, the game reverts back to Grand Theft Auto in a Hong Kong skin.
He started out by designing the console for a car-racing game, and then by conceiving the look of the attackers for a knockoff of Space Invaders called Space Fever.
Three young players with the well-known local club Dax were killed in a car crash after a game.
As an adult, when I was somehow completely free of social and personal pressure, I would often sit in my car after a soccer game, removing my muddy cleats, reflecting on how truly joyous it is to play just for the love of it.
Or, taking an optimistic perspective, the driverless car demonstrates the kind of game-changing killer apps that are now possible in almost any industry.
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While riding the local commuter train from Stanford University to a recent San Francisco Giants baseball game, I found myself in a car filled with drunken teenagers and twenty-somethings.
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While everyone and their mother (this author's parents included) have bought one of those hot new environmentally-conscious cars like a Prius, there's an old-new game in town: the purely electric car.
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Here are some reasons to forgo those party-hearty summers at the beach and brand new sports car, and opt for a game plan early rather than struggle later in life.
The company is still working out other sources of possible revenue, but Doyle says it is considering things like online sponsorshops (i.e. using licensed car models) and in-game ads on virtual billboards.
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John looked back down at his game as his dad began walking back towards the car.
More important than the look and feel of the car is the look and feel of the game.
"You spend three or four days after a game recovering from what is basically the equivalent of two car crashes, " he said.
But individual car owners may not be left out of the game for long.
Car manufacturer Toyota, financial services company Orixand arcade game vendor Namco are among them.
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Jack was texting, and I had barely gotten through my second game of solitaire, when Rich came back to say my car was ready and wanted to know if I wanted to wait for the complimentary wash.
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Players of the game will enter an online world they can explore in the race car, or even get into chase scenes with cop cars.
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Samsung's world-class motion clarity lets viewers read the name on the jersey of a player running at top speed, detect tiny details in a rapid-fire video game and capture every bit of the action in the most dynamic car chase.
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If you go on a TV game show and win real dollars (or even stuff, like a car or TV), you've received taxable income.
This week, Chevy is rolling out new advertising, including an ad called "Just the Facts, " aimed at reminding consumers that the Volt has been heralded as a "game changer, " that it won Motor Trend magazine's "Car of the Year" award and that owners love the vehicle.
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