BeamNG.Drive, could it be used for education?

I'm about to take my driver's test in a few months, and one of the things on the test I am most worried about is parallel parking. I already have my learner's permit, and my dad is planning on practicing parallel parking in a parking lot with a few cones set up. In the mean time, I decided to fire up BeamNG.drive to get some practice in. I set up two cars on the side of the road, and used a third car to try and practice. After a few tries, I managed to get the hang of it. This got me thinking, could driving schools or parents at home use BeamNG.drive as an educational tool? BeamNG.drive is as close to a car as you can get in the virtual world, and with a racing wheel and pedals, the game gets fairly accurate to the real thing. The scenarios tool could serve as a way to select individual skills to work on, like parallel parking, stopping, turning, merging onto a highway, the possibilities are endless. The devs could also create a separate version of BeamNG.drive, similar to Minecraft's education edition. This could serve as an alternative to the large expensive driving simulators used by driving schools currently.

 

eh, yes and no. the physics are on point, so if you want to know how a car feels to drive beamng is a great place to learn (im almost sure beamng saved me a ton of cash when i lost control on a slippery road and narrowly avoided hitting a parked truck) but as for learning the rules of the road and stuff like that city car driving is the better way to go.

 

I understand that city driving is the best way to do it. I'm talking about like really inexperienced drivers who may need some practice before doing the real thing. Getting in the car for the first time can be a bit stressful, and I feel that having some prior practice may ease that stress

 

I think the feeling of driving a car is more important for most drivers just learning. I am sure a VR set up could help with stuff like navigating tight spaces, but the lack of feeling is a big problem for anything else that I can think of. Without a full on simulator (I mean like Boeing style full on sim rig) that can't be fixed. I am sure it can be used for some interesting demonstrations in a physics class though.

 

I think that it could be useful in a "Drive carefully or this will happen to you" kind of way but I think that a full rig would be good for other basic uses. For example, to allow people to get the vague idea about how cars handle.

 

driving at very slow parallel parking speeds is some of the worst experience beamng has to offer, with the extremely triangulated tires

like... just drive a real car, it's not that hard. the feeling of driving in beamng is also nothing like real life, in my experience. everything is ice, tires aren't real.

 

Driving a car in BeamNG is actually very similar to driving a car in the real world, aside from the bumps, feeling of the car, and vibrations.

 

Driving a car in BeamNG is actually very dissimilar to driving a car in the real world, including the bumps, feeling of the car, and vibrations.

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I can see how people find you annoying now.

 

I offered my opinion and observations, you offered yours, now without facts and data to back either of them up the mocking can begin with no delay.

 

He meant City Car Driving the game. Very good game to learn how to drive, driving in it is even harder than in real life. If you master this game, you'll be a supreme driver in real life.

 

For learning the "limits" of a car, yes. BUT, I'm not sure that it would be as good for parallel parking as CCDS.

 

Mirrors are there, you just can’t adjust them. Having a dedicated camera control axis like my Saitek side panel is nice for parking.

 

I like to think that I'm a better driver irl because of this game, it gives you a good understanding of how cars behave and what not to do. It helps me to think about the consequences of my actions.

 

Completely agree. Definetely has saved me a couple times, along with my kart racing from back in the day...
People who say simulators are boring don’t get it!

 

Regardless of how realistic or unrealistic all of you FEEL that beamng drive is, this game is an excellent way to learn why it is a good idea to drive carefully. The only problem is that when you are playing a game, you have no depth perception or accurate sense of scale.

 

i would rather take city car driving