Remember the days when carmakers would run driving simulations on computers hoping to roughly predict a car’s reactions in tense situations.
Well those days have long been shutdown as nowadays, everybody could do something like that on their own private computer. So obviously, driving simulators have soon taken over the role of crash simulators in order to better predict the outcome of a crash or emergency avoidance maneuver. Some of these driving simulators pack more computing power than a Saturn V rocket aimed at the moon.
Lexus have jumped on the driving simulator bandwagon with its crash avoidance simulator. A real Lexus LS460, albeit bolted to the ground, is placed inside the metal bulb with a 360-degree view of a driving environment. Lexus have touted it as their next big thing, we’ll just wait and see how it goes.
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Source: Autoblog
