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Undertoad · 08-21-2001, 01:31 PM

This woman is at Ford, in a driving simulator, wearing a laser headset to accurately track eye movement during a simulated drive. Ford is all excited about this new simulator called Virtual Test Track Experiment, or VIRTTEX being unveiled today to allow researchers to study driver distraction. They say the idea is to learn what effect various tasks have on a driver's attention to the road, like using a cell phone, changing a radio station, etc.

But how could anything be more distracting than wearing a big metal headset with a window over one eye and a laser to track your eyeball? I say the whole thing is bogus, and I intend to continue to drive while talking on the phone, changing CDs, etc. And I'll pull it off, too.

08-21-2001, 01:31 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	8/21: Eye tracking study This woman is at Ford, in a driving simulator, wearing a laser headset to accurately track eye movement during a simulated drive. Ford is all excited about this new simulator called Virtual Test Track Experiment, or VIRTTEX being unveiled today to allow researchers to study driver distraction. They say the idea is to learn what effect various tasks have on a driver's attention to the road, like using a cell phone, changing a radio station, etc. But how could anything be more distracting than wearing a big metal headset with a window over one eye and a laser to track your eyeball? I say the whole thing is bogus, and I intend to continue to drive while talking on the phone, changing CDs, etc. And I'll pull it off, too.