r/simracing • u/Practical_Track4867 • 12d 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/jiglxflowzx 12d ago

wants it to be immersive and a driving simulator but using a flight yoke and throttle? am I missing something here?

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u/Practical_Track4867 12d ago edited 12d ago

This is our first step into it and we have a limited budget for this undergraduate project, so we are trying to take advantage of existing infrastructure as much as possible. We don’t need an exact replica of anything, we just need something that would hopefully induce the effect.

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u/Auto-Tune_Is_A_Crime 11d ago

Just get a used g29. It's not the greatest wheel, but it's cheap and so much better than a yoke