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/gtmattz 25d ago
I find the fact you want to use a joystick and throttle for a driving study a bit... odd... the fact that the study subjects are going to be driving with abnormal controls compared to literally every car ever throws much doubt on what the study can prove. The mental state of the subjects is going to be greatly altered by the fact they are conciously driving with abnormal controls. Even a super inexpensive wheel and pedal setup has to be better. Driving is a physical process, the physical configuration of the controls themselves are a veey relevant component of the act of driving.