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Some people have lack of opportunities for practice driving after obtained their driver license. If they had insufficient driving experience, they would be highly prone to traffic accidents. One of the prospective solutions to these concerns is VR driving training for beginners to practice before driving on a real road. In recent years, VR equipment has become affordable and research activities on impact of VR driving training on driving skills have been conducted so far. To see how VR driving training can improve the driving skills, the authors build a VR driving simulation system with three types of weather conditions (clear sky, rain and foggy) and three types of road conditions (urban road, mountain road and highway). This manuscript conducts a pilot experiment on progress of users driving skills. The results initially show validity of the authors’ simulation system from the fact that it is more hard for users to manoeuver the car along the optimal driving line in foggy condition in comparison with clear sky ones. As for progress of theirs driving skills, users manoeuver the car more safely as they drive more time, and they also do safely even at the early time of driving in the fog condition in terms of optimal driving lines and safe driving speed.
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Xu, Y., Ishihara, M. (2021). A Pilot Study on Progress of Driving Skills with Immersive VR Driving Simulator. In: Stephanidis, C., et al. HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Papers: Multimodality, eXtended Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13095. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90963-5_27
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