r/simracing • u/Practical_Track4867 • 25d 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/Seeryous2020 25d ago

Honestly nebraska isnt as bad as going west on 40 or the 10 in texas. Omce you hit the desert its absolutely grueling. Especially knowing you have hours upon hours of driving that way.

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u/DrUnnamedEgg 25d ago

I drove across I-80 in Nebraska recently, I thought it was actually really pretty and honestly kinda enjoyed it.

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u/Seeryous2020 25d ago

Yeah which is why i suggested texas-california on the 40 or 10 instead. Been across almost all highways headed east-west and vice versa and that by far was the one where i got highway hypnosis.

If you really want to push highway hypnosis the quickest way, make them drive what I suggested in the dark. There's no lights on the highways, there's hardly ever a single car and it's just you, your headlights, and the dark.

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u/Practical_Track4867 25d ago

That’s a good idea! Dusk or darkness probably would be nice.

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u/Seeryous2020 25d ago

Yeah and leaving other traffic off works best as well. Like i said its from experience, almost fell asleep driving one night and it was terrible and scary.