Car Simulator
The “Virage VS500M” driving simulator of LaHeRS Laboratory is built with the most advanced simulation software available in the industry, using a sophisticated driver environment built with actual car components providing a realistic feel of all controls. The simulator is a useful tool used in information, education and scientific research on driving behaviour and road safety.
The car driving simulator system provides the best blend of quality and functionality. The high quality 3D graphics and the realistic sound cues provide the driver with an ideal simulated driving experience in a real car cockpit environment, without the real-world consequences should the student driver make a mistake, while the available routes allow progressive driver training from beginners to experts. The user can drive in a full set of visual scenes reproducing city, highway, industrial, farmland and mountainous environments, under various weather conditions or even under the influence of alcohol. All the scenario design is based on proven pedagogical principles.
The simulator consists of an open cabin with the driver seat, the center console, a fully functional instrument and warning light cluster, a wide visual display, as well as motion and vibration systems. The user can feel the holes on the road surface, the contact with the safe barriers or the rolling over a sidewalk or a dirt road through the steering wheel and seat. Automatic and manual transmissions are available, allowing the user to select the preferred way of steering at the touch of a button. The three-dimensional graphics are displayed on three wide screens located in the front of the cabin providing 180 degrees front view. Rear-view and side-view mirrors are simulated through a window inset within the main screen.
Every year the Laboratory is visited by lots of students from Crete for educational purposes. The visit programme includes hands-on training on the driving simulator, experiential activities, information on the safe use of the road, games on the subject of road safety and audiovisual presentations on traffic education. Moreover, the Laboratory pursues collaboration with driving schools and professional drivers.
Motorbike simulator
SOFTWARE:
- Virtual Scenarios: Urban and Interurban adapted to Country signaling and a Test & Maneuver Track.
- Recreation of real risk situations of the operation by means of Breakdowns and Incidents that can be inserted in the simulation, during editing and/or execution.
- Exercise design, monitoring and evaluation software, with safety and efficient driving reports. Including graphics and advanced telemetry.
The LANDER simulator allows the initial or real-time configuration of more than 60 types of pedestrian (women, men, children, elderly people, animals, people with reduced mobility, etc.), as well as the behaviour of the intelligent traffic that surrounds the driver (cars, buses, trucks, bicycles, motorcycles, etc.). The environment acquires maximum realism with decorative elements and sophisticated functionalities such as:
- Changing light elements, neon lights.
- Working clocks.
- Fountains with water jets and lighting.
- Advertising screens with videos.
- Waving flags and windsocks.
- Movement of the leaves on the trees by the wind.
- and other
The simulator allows the initial or real-time configuration of different types of lighting (day, dark day, night, glare), as well as the inclusion of different environmental conditions that can have a high impact on the driving of heavy vehicles, such as snow, frost, rain, wind and fog, all with different intensities.
It offers simulated urban environments including multi-lane roads, narrow streets, orthogonal road junctions, crossroads with and without traffic lights, complicated turns, roundabouts, tunnel and bridges, slopes, bus station, for manoeuvres, bus stops, and other.
It also offers interurban environments such as motorway with 2 and 3 lane sections, accesses and exits from conventional roads, Service stations, conventional roads passing through built-up areas, mountain passes with steep slopes, Industrial and commercial estate, bends with reduced visibility, rural roads, narrow roads, elevation changes, loading/unloading bays, etc
The simulator allows you to measure, graph, and compare driving indicators. You can precisely measure the driver’s safe distance from the surrounding traffic. Additionally, it enables you to extract
values related to fuel consumption, acceleration, braking, revolutions, and more.
Electric Vehicles
LaHeRS laboratory has 3 electric vehicles to promote environmentally friendly mobility.
Crash / Rollover simulators
LaHeRS laboratory has a crash and rollover simulator as part of a long-term collaboration with the Experiential Road Safety Education Center – EERSC.
