Photo: Lightweight, portable vehicle simulator for teaching vehicle control and accident avoidance. Courtesy Army CRREL. From Armed With Science:
Because one-third as many soldiers are killed in vehicle accidents as in combat, researchers are developing a training simulator that creates environments mirroring the challenges servicemembers face behind the wheel.
“Our work is focused on how wheeled vehicles behave on gravel, loose stones, mud, snow and ice, because these are surfaces where military vehicles frequently operate,” Barry Coutermarsh, a research engineer with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL) in Hanover, N.H., said in a March 10 interview on the “Armed with Science” podcast.
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