For more than 20 years our french partners develop new simulation technologies and softwares for driving safety innovating a wide range of simulators for scooters, motocycles, cars, vans, trucks and buses adapting new programs to master driving risks and bring added value on the issues of  economic and clean drinving techniques.

 

• Barracuda simulator for car driving suiting driving school and centers.

• Simunomad simulator for professional learning and drivers qualification.

• Simupl simulator for vans, trucks, buses and professionnal drivers.

• Simuscooter simulator for motocycles with differents speeds. 

 

With Ediser simulators specific skills can be trained and critical learning situations can be presented repeatedly to the trainees. A good simulator offers opportunities for more efficient and faster learning of driver skills. Training is faster because the student is learning the driving tasks in a stress free environment.

 

Most simulators focus mainly on the basic skills and their usability is limited to the first part of driver training programs. Our Ediser French simulators practice traffic participation and training of traffic insight in high traffic density in built up areas, on motorways and highways with more than 6400 situations.            

                                                                           
Ediser French simulators are supported by a wide range of sophisticated training software dealing with a variety of technical, economic and environmental needs. Our simulators are conceived to make driving learning at once very professional and funny which is ideal for teaching young drivers to drive. Driver training is faster and cheaper in our simulators compared to the traditional methods. For that purpose we offer complete driving simulator systems.

 

The Ediser Simunomad simulator is suitable for driver training and traffic education in enterprise or schools. The high level visual technology with three adapted screens features a real world steering wheel with H pattern gear shift, clutch and brake pedals, handbrake, indicator stalk, light switch and seat belt. Automatic cars are also catered for.

 
With Barracuda Simulator the trainee is seated in a real adjustable car seat and is surrounded with a 5.1 Dolby sound system. The Three high resolution display panels gives the student a 180-210 degree horizontal field of view. The images are presented at a very high frame rate in HD. The operator also has an LCD panel whereby they can control assignments and assess trainees progress. 
 

The traffic system is very advanced, and results in highly realistic traffic scenarios. Challenges such as Freeway on and off ramps, freeway on ramp merging and lane changing in high density traffic, which includes trucks, is covered extensively. Overtaking scenarios on normal roads is another area covered within the lessons format.

 

The Benefits of French Ediser Driving Simulators :

It is an established fact that driving simulators, during novice driver training, may greatly enhance safe driving: A large scale study, performed in the US (R. Wade Allen, George D. Park, Marcia L. Cook, Dary Fiorentino, 2007), has shown that:
"When a good simulator is used, accident rate during the two year period after getting the licence, is reduced to 34% of the national average accident rate of novice drivers: simulators can definitely improve driver training and result in safer drivers. Since teen accident rates are about 5 times higher than mature drivers, the application of simulators in driver training should be seriously considered."
 

The Ediser simulator is a convenient instruction tool for improving the level of training when the training infrastructure in a specific country is less developed, and it gives also the opportunity to discover the European roads and highways with a very rich curriculum of driving situations and solutions. 

 

Advantages of a French Ediser simulator compared to a real car in driver training  : 

 

• A guaranteed level of quality for all students and trainees resulting in safer driving behaviour.

• A rational capacity to evaluate and measure driving errors ans progress with real objectivity.

• Training in a safe environment without stress which enhances learning and provokes accidents.

• A guaranteed supply of meaningful learning/traffic situations increasing the effectiveness of training substantially

• A mastered  driving environment control which facilitates the trainer to concentrate on one teaching objective at one time.

• A  possibility to promote the curriculum in advance and to evaluate progress in a methodical way

• An opportunity to teach the student to cope with dangerous situations that do not occur frequently on the road.

• Fewer hours on the road: reduces fuel consumption which is good for the environment.

• Less  CO2 emission as one hour on simulator is 13x less than one hour in a car.

• High quality of training, self reliance and good qualification in less time and at lower cost.

• Driver training can be offered for a lower price which gives a competitive advantage.

• The driving simulator is very suitable to overcome driving fear and phobies.

• The driving simulator fits women to get more autonomy in learning.

 

 

According to a scientif study of  J.C.F. de Winter, P.M. van Leeuwen and R. Happee Department of BioMechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, driving simulators give many advantages compared to real vehicles.

 

1. Controllability, Reproducibility, and Standardization.

 

Behavior of virtual traffic, weather conditions, and the road layout can be manipulated (offline or in real-time) as a function of the training needs or research aims.

Purpose-developed scenarios enable trainees to practice a large number of dedicated maneuvers per time unit. Wassink et al. [4] describe software architecture for generating dynamic scenarios in a driving simulator. With the aim of maximizing the effectiveness of the training, the authors apply a metaphor from the 1998 movie The Truman Show: everything surrounding the learner driver responds to the driver’s behavior.

Using simulators, participants in different physical locations can drive under the exact same conditions. This is beneficial for creating standardized driving tests and reproducible research results. In contrast, the real traffic environment is largely random.

 

2. Ease of Data Collection and Progress Verification :

 

A driving simulator can measure performance accurately and efficiently. With a real vehicle, it is far more cumbersome to obtain complete, synchronized, and accurate measurement data. It is a fundamental challenge to get an accurate recording of where a real vehicle actually is in the world. For example, in one study using an instrumented vehicle and a driving simulator, it was impossible to determine the distance between the vehicle and a stop line on the road, while in the simulator this information was readily available [5].

 

Measurement of lateral position is challenging as well, as this requires visible lane markers while weather conditions, reflection, and shades may affect the quality of the measurement [6]. Santos et al. [7] found that lateral position measurements of the instrumented vehicle were of marginal quality while this information was accurate in the simulator, leading the authors to conclude that “problems with field studies in an instrumented vehicle have been confirmed” (p. 145).

 

Because of the measurement capabilities of simulators, new types of behavior analyses come within reach, such as trigonometric analysis of time-to-line crossing [8] or object detection and hazard perception studies using eye-tracking [9].

 

3. Possibility of encountering dangerous driving conditions without being physically at risk :

 

Simulators can be used to prepare trainees to handle unpredictable or safety-critical tasks that may be inappropriate to practice on the road, such as collision avoidance or risky driving [10]. Furthermore, simulators make it possible to study hazard perception by exposing drivers to dangerous driving tasks, which is an ethically challenging endeavor in a real vehicle [9]. Flach et al. [11] stated that simulators “offer an opportunity to learn from mistakes in a forgiving environment” (p. 134).

 

Allen et al. [12] made a similar case: “Motor vehicle crashes are significantly higher among young drivers during the first year of licensure, and crash risks decline with increased experience. […] This produces an interesting dilemma about how to provide young drivers with driving experience without significantly increasing their crash risk. Driving simulation may be the solution to this dilemma.”

 

4. Novel opportunity for feedback and instruction :

 

Simulators offer the opportunity for feedback and instruction that is not easily achieved in real vehicles. For example, it is possible to freeze, reset, or replay a scenario [13]. Feedback and instructions can be delivered in other modalities besides speech, such as visual overlays to highlight critical features in the environment.  

 

 

 

 

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