hazard perception study

http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/reports/muarc234.html

"The first report identified that motorcycle riders must deal with
the same hazards as car drivers, as well as the additional hazard of
failure by car drivers to give way. The vehicle control skills involved
in riding a motorcycle are more complex than driving a car and failure
to correctly implement a response to a hazard may in itself be
dangerous.

There has been a lot of research into hazard perception by car drivers
but few studies have addressed hazard perception and responding by
motorcycle riders. The research has shown that novice car drivers are
slower or less likely to detect and respond to hazards and that car
drivers who are slower at detecting hazards in a driving simulator
report having more accidents. "

THey recommend using simulators for situations "too hazardous" for
trying on real bikes. I thought that's what the 3-6 months
unaccompanied on the road with L plates was for?

Zebee

 

Is there such a thing as a good motorcycle simulator anyway?

HART has one but it feels pretty dodgy to me and I don't know it'd give
me much confidence as a beginning roder.

 

They dusted it off and wheeled it out at the ride for life day.

Personally, I prefer the shitty MotoGP arcade game ones, at least
they're fun, if not an accurate simulation...

 

In aus.motorcycles on 19 May 2005 20:07:17 -0700

The full report says that they are used in Japan, and that there are
high end and low end ones.

Zebee

 

MotoGP and MotoGP2 on XBox would have to be the closest video games i've
come across that simulate motorcycles.

Cheers,
Josh - 00 ZX9R - Gold Coast

 

The low end ones are the ones they ship off to Australia, one
presumes!

GB

 

They have slow moving four-wheel-drives in those games?

GB

 

GP500. PC.

 

That's the only problem, they don't, otherwise i'd have been sweet last
year. But i believe the physics of the game are truly exceptional for a
console.

Josh

 

The "Great Ocean Road" level comes with pushy Taragos.

-----sharks

 

....and falcadores refusing to wield to clutchless Harleys and big bastards
on BMW's.

 

Riding a motorcycle simulator isn't going to be very good at teaching you much
about surviving on the road. Putting your helmet on and walking across a busy
road a few times would probably be better practice.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

It would depend on the simulator. I've had the opportunity to fly
a bunch of those real-deal wacky-do flight simlators that they use
to train pilots and those things *are* the real deal, believe me.
You very quickly forget that you're in a simulator and concentrate
on flying.

A full motion simulator that is good enough to let you forget
that its a simulation costs a whole metric buttload of money
to set up and to run however, and so it's not something that's
ever going to make it into motorcycling or driving. When you're
doing cost/benefit sums on a simulator for a modern digital
jet (B744/777/737) the $10,000-$25,000 per hour cost of flying
the real thing versus a couple of grand an hour to simulate it
is pretty easy to take. It's even easier when you consider
that crashing a B777 costs $300M for the hardware alone, and
crashing the sim takes a reset!

Down at motorcycle level, a dozen copies of the real thing *and*
a custom private circuit on a 40 acre paddock are gonna be a *lot*
cheaper than a believable simulator, so its just not going to
happen.

The general punter-blic gets all upset everytime anyone, anywhere
crashes an aeroplane. No-one blinks an eye when someone crashes
a bike or a car. It's a combination of public perception and
money money money.


GB, Boeing 767, Boeing 737, Airbus A320, Canadair CRJ200