First Look: Honda Driving Simulator

To further enhance the ability of driver trainees to recognize and understand potential risks, a new function was added to provide easy-to-understand graphics and/or written descriptions of conditions where the driver should be cautious. Further, the driver is also provided with advice on how to ensure safe driving in potentially dangerous situations that have a high possibility of occurring in the real world. This new function also helps the trainer provide more detailed and precise instructions. Moreover, the newly adopted high-definition LCD (liquid crystal display) enables trainees to experience a sense of driving that is closer to real-world conditions.

Leveraging the know-how it has accumulated about safe driving, Honda developed the automobile simulator as a traffic safety educational device which provides users a safe environment in which to experience the risks inherent to real-world traffic situations. Since it was first introduced in 2001, Honda has sold approximately 200 units of the automobile driving simulator in Japan and overseas countries. Honda also develops and sells motorcycle simulators globally, and bicycle simulators as well as a PC-based automobile driving simulator in Japan with the goal of improving drivers' ability to predict risks and increase safety awareness for a wider range of people who operate mobility devices.

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