Man creates £4,500 gaming rig in his truck to play driving games when in traffic

While Honda plans to push a car with PlayStation 5 support, one racing game fan has built their own rig inside of their truck.

We all know how boring it is when you get stuck in heavy traffic, forcing you to come to a standstill for potentially hours. Nowadays, though, mobile games can help stave off the boredom – even though you shouldn’t really be playing anything when you’re the driver.

That’s not how Redditor ZanaZamora sees things though, as they’ve gone as far as to install a very expensive gaming rig into the passenger seat of their truck.

They recently showed it off in a clip shared to Reddit, which has left people simultaneously gobsmacked and impressed.

ZanaZamora explains that they had been waiting to get stuck in traffic, so they’d have an excuse to actually use their rig, and that moment came when a road they were driving on was shut down.

After shifting into the passenger seat, they already had a game set up and ready to go, in the form of racing sim Le Mans Ultimate. Although they could technically have played anything ZanaZamora’s rig is dominated by a massive racing game controller, so all they can really do is play driving sims… while they wait to drive off.

Stand still traffic? Time to switch to the other seat~
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ZanaZamora says he could use the controller to play flight sims as well, but not much else. Altogether, the gaming equipment, monitor, and taxes meant they spent about $6,000, which is approximately £4,474.

They insist it was worth it, though: ‘Sim racing is incredibly rewarding, something you can really dig into and strive to improve in. Having a hobby on the road that you can easily melt a 34-hour reset with or even just spend a 30-minute break working on something small, is a great resource.’

This also allows them to regularly take part in online events for another racing sim, iRacing: ‘The first season of this year just ended and I managed to finish 151st in the entire world in the GT4 series. Not a jaw dropping achievement but something that I enjoyed working on consistently over the last three months.’

Some of the responses on Reddit joke about the idea of ZanaZamora playing a truck simulator, like American Truck Simulator, while the top comment says, ‘This has got to be the most unhinged rig I’ve ever seen. Well done.’

While ZanaZamora has done this to keep themselves entertained on frustrating drives, in recent years there does seem to have been a general attempt to normalise the concept of playing video games in your car.

Tesla was one of the first to push this, incorporating a built-in arcade into its cars, that comes with several pre-installed games, like Cyberpunk 2077.

It also made the baffling decision to update the games to be playable mid-drive, which it eventually disabled shortly afterwards, following an investigation by the US’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Honda, meanwhile, announced a partnership with Sony in December; one that incorporates PlayStation Remote Play into its upcoming Afeela 1 model, letting you stream games from your PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5.

At least Honda isn’t encouraging you to play while you’re driving, and it’s more for keeping passengers entertained, but we’re still unsure if there’s really been an appropriate level of demand for it. Especially when it’s much easier to waste away an hour on your phone.

Tesla may have recognised this, since despite adding full Steam integration to its cars, it dropped the feature for future models in 2024.

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