Toyota will teach driving using virtual reality

With the development popularity of the virtual reality helmets many companies or even ordinary users are beginning to find them rather unusual applications. For example, Toyota decided to use a helmet for learning to drive a car.

As the resource Engadget, the Japanese Toyota started digging the project TeenDrive365, which she plans to use a virtual reality helmet Oculus Rift for driving instruction.

The initiative is mainly aimed at training teenagers to concentrate driving specifically on driving and not be distracted by extraneous things, such as mobile phones or the conversations of passengers.

Now Toyota has developed a program-simulation roads of the United States, which includes 10 major cities in the country.

It is reported that the project TeenDrive365 launched on January 15. The idea of Toyota, such initiative should contribute to reducing the number of accidents on the roads, particularly among young inexperienced drivers.

Source: hi-news.ru