Turbine engines and ejection seats. I often wonder why they don't put ejection seats in cars in general. It would be much safer. You would just eject before getting in an inevitable collision. Then you'd glide down to safety. Unless you get hit by a car after you parachute back to the ground.

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Turbine engines and ejection seats. I often wonder why they don't put ejection seats in cars in general. It would be much safer. You would just eject before getting in an inevitable collision. Then you'd glide down to safety. Unless you get hit by a car after you parachute back to the ground.

Or electricuted on some pylons. Or onto a railway line. Or the inevitable dangers near an airport *imagination kicks in.......... lolz*

Or near the sea when you cannot swim.

Or at a safari park

Or when the car is already upsidedown

Or when the car is in a tunnel

or crashing into the ejection seat of the other guy in mid air after a head on collision... highly amusing but quite unpleasant for those involved

An ejection seat going off in the tunnel at Monaco would make for interesting viewing.

I would like to see it just so we can see Kovalainen (finally learnt to spell it without using google) flying up into the sky after a brilliant overtaking move, just because he hit the wrong button. Also Lewis Hamilton wouldn't be able to hide behind a technical glitch excuse if he was sent flying into the sky.

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What surprises me is that no one modding the rFactor simulation has decided to let their imagination run wild and create something along these lines. It would be pants, but interesting!

That's because everyone wants to "drive real cars" - whatever that means in a twice-or-more-abstracted simulation environment. A wildly futuristic racing series with as-close-guessed-as-possible-physics (which is the same as just about all mods out there), despite being instantly labeled as "arcade" and "unrealistic" because it doesn't exist, would definitely be interesting - especially if they allow designers to do their own thing and let their imagination go.

problem is to design a car that looks something like a derestricted f1 would look like youd need a whole bunch of skilled engineers of which there arent any in the rf modding community as is apparent from the quality of most mods

I think it's more a matter of risking low popularity on one hand and the general consensus that "just like the real thing 3d model = I am driving the real car" on the other. Good modelers and adept-at-physics modders seem to follow those trends more. Ofcourse it's also the matter of taste - perhaps they simply don't like fantasy/imaginary vehicles.