Editing Driving simulator (section)

=== Fidelity ===
There exists a number of types research driving simulators, with a wide range of capabilities. 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. These low cost simulators are used readily in the evaluation of basic and clinically oriented scientific questions.<ref>Li, Z., & Milgram, P. (2005). An Investigation of the Potential to Influence Braking Behaviour Through Manipulation of Optical Looming Cues in a Simulated Driving Task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 49(17), 1540–1544.</ref><ref>Matthews, R. W., Ferguson, S. A., Zhou, X., Sargent, C., Darwent, D., Kennaway, D. J., & Roach, G. D. (2012). Time-of-Day Mediates the Influences of Extended Wake and Sleep. Chronobiology International, 29(5): 572–579</ref><ref>Baulk, S. D., Biggs, S. N., Reid, K. J., van den Heuvel, C. J., & Dawson, D. (2008). Chasing the silver bullet: Measuring driver fatigue using simple and complex tasks. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 40(1), 396–402.</ref><ref>Telner, J. A., Wiesenthal, D. L., & Bialystok, E. (2009). Video Gamer Advantages in a Cellular Telephone and Driving Task. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 53(23), 1748–1752.</ref><ref>Telner, J. A. (2008). The effects of linguistic fluency on performance in a simulated cellular telephone and driving situation. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1748–1752.</ref><ref>Rapoport, M. J., Weaver, B., Kiss, A., Zucchero Sarracini, C., Moller, H., Herrmann, N., Lanctôt, K., et al. (2011). The Effects of Donepezil on Computer-Simulated Driving Ability Among Healthy Older Adults: A Pilot Study. Journal of clinical psychopharmacology, 31(5), 587.</ref>
The issue is complicated by political and economic factors, as facilities with low-fidelity simulators claim their systems are "good enough" for the job, while the high-fidelity simulator groups insist that their (considerably more expensive) systems are necessary. Research into motion fidelity indicates that, while some motion is necessary in a research driving simulator, it does not need to have enough range to match real-world forces.<ref>Greenberg J., Artz B., Cathey L. The Effect of Lateral Motion Cues During Simulated Driving. ''Driving Simulator Conference North America 2003 Proceedings,'' Dearborn, Michigan, October 8–10, 2003, CD-ROM (ISSN 1546-5071)</ref> Recent research has also considered the use of the real-time photo-realistic video content that reacts dynamically to driver behaviour in the environment.<ref name="heras11driving">{{cite book |author1=Heras, A.M. |author2=Breckon, T.P. |author3=Tirovic, M. |chapter=Video Re-sampling and Content Re-targeting for Realistic Driving Incident Simulation |title=Proc. 8th European Conference on Visual Media Production |date=November 2011 |pages=sp-2 |url=http://www.durham.ac.uk/toby.breckon/publications/papers/heras11driving.pdf |access-date=8 April 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>