Video Games Are Coming To A Car Near You

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Automakers think we need this ridiculousness.

Most normal people probably have absolutely no idea that a growing number of new cars have video games embedded in them. That very concept would likely make them laugh and rightly so. After all, it doesn’t really make sense to use your car as a gaming console, especially when your smartphone can play games and there are many handheld gaming systems available these days. Yet this is a trend on the rise.

These are the least romantic cars.

In the first Fast and Furious movie, one of the drivers involved in the first street race was playing a racing game in his car. Even back then, people were installing game consoles in their ride, but for the vast majority of the population it was something comical and silly. Nobody back then imagined automakers would decide to add such a feature as standard equipment.

But these days every vehicle comes with screens galore, including a huge central screen in the dash. That’s presented an opportunity to place games in the software since all the hardware is right there. And so your car is quickly evolving into an Xbox.