The website of pressbug released the comment of a bug in Second Life. Can you believe it? The comment will tell you someting about Toyota Being. Thanks for your attention and enjoy it.
How does Toyota Being in Second Life Sell Scions?
Maybe is was the wonky search that day (a bug in SL, can you believe it?), but the first problem Toyota has is that it doesn
t show up in Search (Ill test this again later). I had to get the landmark from a friend, but to spare you the trouble, here is the "SLURL": Scion City.
The minute I showed up on the island I was greeted with a spectacle worthy of "Harry Potter", someones Scion elevated itself through the roof of the display area and off into space! Meanwhile Juston Runo, a fellow visitor, was struggling to figure out how to get into a car to drive. Here is a picture of him with his head rammed through the ceiling in back seat. After a bit I managed to get one running.
The controls are very simple, in fact a little two simple; a button to move forward, backward, left and right. There is no real way of controlling how much you turn or accelerate, it is a lot like those really cheap remote control cars you can buy that only go forward, reverse or left, and you somehow have to guide them around your dinner table. The controls were painful, but to make it worse the lag (the time between taking an action and seeing the result) in SL ensured I bumped into walls, invisible unrezzed barriers and fellow explorers constantly.
My driving was worse than Paris Hiltons on her prom night. I was weaving more than an Afghani child laborer making carpets. I crashed more often than my old Windows 98 computer after it got digital herpes from visiting that site on the internet. Here is a photo of me about to die.
Mercifully the demo timed out and the car disappeared from around me. I checked out the "build", the city, but all of those fancy buildings lack an key essential for human use: a door. There was a "Scion City Owners (sic) Showcase", but there was only one thing on display, a Scion wearing a hat.
So I dont really understand how large corporations make decisions, but what exactly was going through the heads of people at the Toyota marketing department when they decided to commission this? Exactly how does test "driving" this thing that looks like a cardboard box with photos of a real car pasted on it make me feel so warm and fuzzy I want to go out an buy a Scion? And finally, what exactly is the point of selling these at 300 when you can get a BMW as a freebie, complete with the same shitty controls? And I wonder what the wizened old board members of Toyota would think when the Gor slave showed up in the middle of their advertising tableau dressed with just a little transparent silk?
