The laptop uses the GPS data to maintain a 3D model which keeps the vehicle correctly positioned in the virtual world, and much "like a novel, " the story unfolds as different turns (ahem) take place based on the decisions players make.

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He suggests an idea of "virtual towing" where an idle car could pick up on another vehicle and follow it back to a stack, using inter-car tracking software.

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The preparations have led to a virtual lockdown in Baghdad, with most of its central arteries cut off to vehicle traffic.

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Instead of heading to Honest Al's Maybach Acres, prospective buyers ago to a "commissioning studio, " where, with the help of virtual reality technology and a Maybach "relationship manager, " they commission a custom vehicle to be built in Germany.

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Chip-scale sensors already tell an SUV's master computer when the vehicle is about to roll over and the Wii game controller when the live player wants to swing the virtual bat.

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