Rigs of Rods: a soft body physics based vehicle simulator with support for driving, flight, and sailing. It offers a variety of functionality from multiple transmission types, offroading, flight and buoyancy mechanics, throttle-based hydraulics, advanced steering types fully-deformable beam-node structures and contactable sub-meshes for collision simulation.

Originally developed in France by Pierre Michel Ricordel (Pricorde), RoR was designed as an open source trucking simulator, depending on user generated content to stay interesting.

It's successor BeamNG.drive is a pay to play driving game in public alpha, thus far offering much less functionality and content than it's free-to-play counterpart.

Shane: "Are you playing that awful driving simulator again?"

Fred: "Shut up Fred, RoR is awesome, best physics of any game!"

Shane: "But it's not a game, there's no objective!"

Fred: "Who cares, I can independently adjust the friction coeff..."

Shane: "Exactly why it's not a game"

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RoR

An abbreviation for the programming framework Ruby on Rails (also called "Rails"). This web framework allows developers to build web applications very quickly.
It uses the Ruby programming language, and is known for its speed in prototyping ideas. So, it's a common thing for startups to turn to (at least at this time, ~2010).

A notable feature is that it has generators in the command line that seem "magical" in that they generate a lot of code for the programmer.

"What's the technology stack for your company?"
"We plan to use RoR at first."

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