Carnegie Mellon Showcases Driving Simulator

October 11, 2000 9:15 AM, EDT

The future of truck driving simulation has arrived, landing at the Carnegie Mellon Driver Training and Safety Institute facility in Lemont Furnace, Pa.

	Carnegie Mellon
	A driver is taken through the paces during a test on the simulator at the Carnegie Mellon Driver Training and Safety Institute.

The Trust 800 simulator, a fourth-generation sister of manufacturer and developer Thomson CSF’s French version, will supplement on-road driving training time to make a “better, safer driver,” said Gerard Meyer, president of DTSI.

Available since 1997 in Europe, 1,500 drivers have already trained on it over there.

Carnegie Mellon “has benefited from four years [of] work in Europe,” said Meyer. With research funding from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the school is adapting the French simulator to its needs, he said.

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