Thursday, July 5, 2012

Keeping it REAL...


         
So the topic for the day is whether or not simulated driving evaluations are equivalent to an ACTUAL driving assessment.  After doing a little research on the matter it is apparent both evaluations will obviously give some sort of end result – duh.  The question is which evaluation is more reliable?  Statistics are statistics & will always give some informational result.  However, it begs to question; how is a SIMULATION is ever going to be REAL?  We don’t simulate our self to the grocery store or simulate dropping the kids off at school so why would we simulate a driving evaluation?  Let’s keep it real!  With all the different dynamics of personality out there it would most likely behoove the public to take a driving evaluation in real time, real everyday situations & base the results off of reality.  I have included here a couple links on an example of a simulated driving evaluation & another link on a study done from a Virtual Evaluation (VE).  See & judge for yourself how close to real life these things can possibly be.
 
LINK #1 =

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wogpRazlu8

LINK #2 = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2186376/

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