Gadgetory

hey this is Chris from the verge why the heck am I in the middle of the desert very few things would cause me to travel some 60 miles away from our home base in Las Vegas just as CES is getting into full swing the chance to drive a 460 horsepower Corvette Stingray though yeah that will do it I'm here at Nevada's Spring Mountain Raceway today to look at a new feature coming to the 2015 Corvette the performance data recorder you've heard of the quantified self well think of this is the quantified car the combination data logger and forward facing camera that outputs video to an SD card you stick in your glovebox the result looks like something straight out of a video game but let's back up for a second why would you want to do this your daily driver is a minivan odds are you won but then again the Stingray is no minivan this is for track day warriors the men and women who spend a Saturday on an entire weekend logging their car around twists and turns for the pure thrill of it it's IRL Gran Turismo it's a blast trust me it's not just about driving though we need to show off your asphalt conquests which is why the GoPro camera has revolutionized the track day at this point it's hard to find a car in the local track that doesn't have a couple action cam suction cup defenders well GM caught on to the trend concealing an HD camera right in this stingrays headliner as our Accords the videos overlaid with a bunch of stats racers care abouts rpms current gear lateral G's so on after which you can eject the card upload the video to youtube and brag to your friends about that sick lap you turn to Laguna Seca in other words it's definitely not for everyone in fact it's not even for all Corvette drivers it'll be an extra cost option available later this year and pricing hasn't been announced but if analyzing your driving mechanics to squeeze another second out of your lap times is your idea of a good Saturday night GM has the coolest product in town or in this case 60 miles outside of town you