Driving simulator

[3] Suzuki's team at Sega followed it with hydraulic motion simulator cockpit cabinets for later racing games such as Out Run (1986).

In addition to the myriad commercial releases there is a bustling community of amateur coders working on closed and open source free simulators.

Some of the major features popular with fans of the genre are online racing, realism and diversity of cars and tracks.

The most complex, like the National Advanced Driving Simulator, have a full-sized vehicle body, with six-axis movement and 360-degree visual displays.

On the other end of the range are simple desktop simulators that are often implemented using a computer monitor for the visual display and a videogame-type steering wheel and pedal input devices.

[11] Recent research has also considered the use of the real-time photo-realistic video content that reacts dynamically to driver behaviour in the environment.

[13] Another study found absolute validity for the types and number of driver errors committed on a simulator and on the road.