Driving simulators are increasingly used to assess the driving capabilities of persons with neurodegenerative conditions. However, few driving simulator evaluations have been validated against standardized on-road tests. The aim of this study was to investigate the concurrent validity of a comprehensive driving simulator evaluation in 29 persons with Huntington disease (HD). The Test Ride for I...

FOR POSTER PRESENTATION A Distributed Virtual Driving Simulator Ronald R. Mourant, Naizhong Qiu and Susan A. Chiu Virtual Environments Laboratory 3 34 Snell Engineering Center Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115 email: [email protected] Our goal is to develop techniques for distributed driving simulation on low cost computers. Successful distributed environments have already been impleme...

In today’s China, a growing number of people have the opportunity to have their own cars. This creates tremendous requirement of training of new drivers. At the same time, recent advances in Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality system have brought the new opportunities for the development of driving simulation. This paper describes a driving simulator named TODS which is the acronym of trainin...

This study examined the effectiveness of 3 different training types on commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers' skill levels. The training types included a conventional 8-week certified course, a conventional 8-week certified course with approximately 60% of driving time spent in a CMV driving simulator, and a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) test focused short course. Participants' scores on t...

PROBLEM To develop appropriate assessment criteria to measure the performance of older drivers using an interactive PC-based driving simulator, and to determine which measures were associated with the occurrence of motor-vehicle crash. METHOD One hundred and twenty-nine older drivers residing in a metropolitan city volunteered to participate in this retrospective cohort study. Using the drivi...

To provide reliable and valid findings when evaluating innovative in-car devices in the automotive context highly realistic driving environments are recommended. Nowadays, in-car devices are mostly evaluated due to driving simulator studies followed by real car driving experiments. Driving simulators are characterized by high internal validity, but weak regarding ecological validity. Real car d...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of visual field defects on driving performance, and to predict practical fitness to drive. METHODS The driving performance of 87 subjects with visual field defects due to ocular abnormalities was assessed on a driving simulator and during an on-road driving test. OUTCOME MEASURES The final score on the on-road driving test and simulator indexes, such as ...

Driving simulators are used to conduct experiments on driver behavior, road design, and vehicle characteristics, etc. It is important that a driving simulator include a realistic simulation of surrounding vehicles in order to be a valid representation of real driving. This paper describes a model that generates and simulates surrounding traffic for a driving simulator. The model is built on est...