Equipment Note ‘Moving Road Simulator’ — A Machine Suitable for the Study of Speed Phenomena including Motion After-Effect

Abstract

Since vision plays a very large and important part in the overall skill of driving a vehicle, it is worth while to attempt to simulate much of the visual task in the laboratory. This note describes a machine which is capable of simulating some of the visual aspects of driving. By treating motion ‘aftor-effect’ as a compensatory tracking task, it appears that reasonably accurate measurement of this phenomenon as a function of time and stimulus magnitude is possible. Technical details of the system are given and some of its possible uses are discussed.