Virtual driving online

Boy, we were excited when we heard that Blinkx, an online TV search tool, had inked a deal with verdictoncars.com, ‘to enable users to view virtual test drives.’ Excited until we read on in the release that by virtual it meant footage of real people driving the cars, not a system that used latest 3D graphics to let us burn through Virtualville in the Ferrari of our dreams.

The system lets you watch ad-type videos of gorgeous people driving cars viewed from pleasing angles. Perhaps it is of interest to high end motor buyers, but it certainly isn’t online motoring as we’d imagined it.