Virtual Reality Driving Simulation System For Left- And Right-Hand Traffic

What is it about?

Driving is an inevitable part of our lives and creating well-trained drivers is a current topic that is receiving more and more attention. The World Health Organization warns that by 2030 road traffic accidents will be the fifth leading cause of death in the world. The rapid development of virtual reality (VR) technology in recent years has made it possible to create simulators of varying complexity and cost to support the process of simulation, training, and adaptation of drivers. One of the important problems when driving is the need to switch from left-hand drive to right-hand drive or vice versa. The number of countries and territories with vehicle traffic in the left lane is over 70, and in the remaining over 115 countries, vehicle traffic is in the right lane. Millions of people travel between left-hand and right-hand drive countries and experience difficulties from the different standard, which creates conditions for road transport accidents. This paper examines the creation of a left-hand and right-hand drive virtual reality training system to assist in the adaptation process for drivers when they need to drive in reverse to what they have been using up until now. The main aspects in the study are - the hardware model of the system, the choice of a specific virtual reality technology and the development environment, considering that each of these components plays an essential role.

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Why is it important?

There are various developments for driver training in VR, using different hardware and software solutions. The main thing that can be said is that exactly such a development is not available at this stage for 2 main reasons - training model and hardware system.

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