Go see William Osman's video about building the car! -    • A Car Designed To Make You Sick   and thanks to Michael Reeves for being a guinea pig:    / @michaelreeves  

We built a car that you drive with real-life video game lag, and used it for an ill-advised, mostly-unscientific experiment about motion sickness.

In case it wasn't obvious: we did this in a private area away from public roads and other traffic, and I insisted on more safety checks than William and Michael would normally have. Don't try this unless you're doing the same!

Edited by Elliot Gough
Audio mix by Graham Haerther

REFERENCES:

Treisman, M. (1977). Motion sickness: an evolutionary hypothesis. Science, 197(4302), 493-495. doi: 10.1126/science.301659

Spinks, R. (2018). We still don’t understand motion sickness, but it’s likely to get worse in the digital age. Retrieved from https://qz.com/quartzy/1379653/we-sti...

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