Beta - Moose Test

The Moose Test is designed to test the handling of a vehicle when faced with a sudden obstacle that needs to be avoided. It is meant to simulate a child or moose/deer stepping out suddenly into the road and hence the name of the test.

Here is a demonstration of the moose test in real life and is exactly how to perform the test in this BeamNG scenario:

Instructions

The scenario looks like such in the list of scenarios:

When starting the scenario, you will be asked to choose the vehicle that you would like to test and press "Start". Start by getting up to roughly 65 kmh / 40 mph to get a feel for the car's handling through the cones. Remember, you are not allowed any user inputs besides steering once you enter the cones. Any user inputs or cones knocked over will disqualify your run! At the end of the cones, there is a yellow box that teleports you back to the start and will also reset the cones, so don't worry about testing the car's limits! This also means you don't need to restart the scenario every time you finish a run, unless you want to change vehicles.

There is also a leaderboard UI that logs all previous successful runs ordered by entry speed and where the last run performed in the current session will be bolded. Hovering over a run will show more details about the run:

Further Information

This scenario is based on the industry-standard ISO 3888-2 moose test design specifications as shown below in the diagram (https://www.researchgate.net/figure...uver-according-to-ISO-3888-2-2_fig1_347266855).

This means in the BeamNG scenario, the setup of the cones will adapt to the width of the chosen vehicle as that is part of the actual specifications, as well as all the distances between cones.

Recent Updates

Fix for 0.32 Sep 9, 2024
Fixed bug with failing user if failed previous run due to input Jun 28, 2022
Added ability to go into freecam mode Jun 27, 2022

Read all 3 updates...

Recent Reviews

Ananel81

4/5,

Version: 1.03
Good mod in overall, sadly useless with most BeamNG cars because they understeer even at 80 km/h (every steer assistant setting is turned off)

Feb 17, 2025
1. Author's Response
  80 km/h is above average speed for this test in real life: https://www.youtube.com/@km77
Akiazusa

5/5,

Version: 1.02
Good concept.
To anyone who got failed when trying to change vehicles,find the moose_test_angelo234.lua in the zip file of the mod,find line 63,which is like"runs_data = ReadjsonFile(runs_json_file_dir) or {}" ,change the "ReadjsonFile" to "jsonReadFile",and restart the game,everything will start working as expect.

Sep 5, 2024
1. Author's Response
  Oh sorry, a fix will come out soon
antek_g23

4/5,

Version: 1.02
The concept of the scenario is great but I can't change vehicle because it fails me if I don't move the car for a period of time.

Aug 11, 2024
supardianto

5/5,

Version: 1.02
bug i fall trough ground

Jun 13, 2023
Yash_gamin144

5/5,

Version: 1.02
moose cake

Jul 4, 2022
1. Author's Response
  mousse test
Lewhik

5/5,

Version: 1.02
Epic

Love the Comment of Redbeard

Jun 29, 2022
1. Author's Response
  Thanks!
G-Farce

5/5,

Version: 1.02
funny I was just looking up stuff like moose tests a few weeks back. And now here we are. It's really quite interesting how so many cars fail because them experts don't seem to know what center of gravity means

Jun 29, 2022
1. Author's Response
  yup and its definitely interesting to see the results of American cars in BeamNG lol
redbeard711

5/5,

Version: 1.02
amazing mod!! as soon as i watched the youtube video i rushed to get my wife to help explain why my focus rs was a good purchase lol didnt work

Jun 28, 2022
1. Author's Response
  oof
Let's Play With Ant

5/5,

Version: 1.02
LOL last week i made my own moose test with cones xd now I'm happy someone made a moose test

Jun 28, 2022
1. Author's Response
  thank you!
JFoxx97

5/5,

Version: 1.01
Very fun, good work

Jun 28, 2022
1. Author's Response
  thanks!