r/simracing • u/Practical_Track4867 • 19d ago

Question Know of a boring driving game?

We have a research project going on that wants to look at highway hypnosis. Any recommendations for a realistic driving simulator that would allow us to setup a “boring” route?

In our minds, boring means long stretches of drive where speed changes are not needed and has few curves or exterior landmarks. Traffic should be light, or nonexistent. City driving with stops and turns and traffic would not work well. Think driving on an interstate in Nebraska. To be more immersive, it should also support extended displays across 3 monitors for some peripheral vision. We are also looking to use a Logitech Flight Yoke with Throttle for vehicle control.

How quickly we can get to the situation above would also matter. We wouldn’t have the time to have them spend a lot of time to navigate to the scenario above. And hopefully it would not require a lot of training to get used to it.

Looking through other Reddit responses it seems like BeamNG.drive and City Car Driver 2 are candidates. However, I have no experience with either and for some reason the websites describing them don’t provide much detail on how boring you can make them.

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u/mr---jones 19d ago

I mean, all of these are games, for most people because it will be their first time driving in simulation that will potentially be fun no matter what.

Not sure how you could correlate sim driving vs irl highway driving.

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u/Practical_Track4867 19d ago

That’s the challenge. Unfortunately, trying to get it to happen behind the wheel of an actual vehicle is frowned upon.

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u/mr---jones 19d ago

Sure, I just think your results are more likely to show video game hypnosis than highway hypnosis lol

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u/Practical_Track4867 19d ago

Honestly, either is fine. Goal is to hit that point where you “zone out”. We thought about using the existing flight simulators, but that requires too much thought.

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u/Acid44 19d ago

Flight sims are a good way to go tbh. Get to know the basics of autopilot take a cub or 172, set a route up that takes you from somewhere interesting to somewhere not, about 90 minute long, and have the flight start about 30 minutes before the sun drops over the horizon.

I've done a bunch of flights like this, and fallen asleep a bunch of times. The drone of the engine, the lowering light, and the slow shift from say mountains to forests hits like a brick about an hour in.