rec.autos.simulators

hello

i am looking for a car/traffic simulator (if possible on mac) to practice
left driving (yes i am going to the uk...)

thanks in advance for your help.

philip

Suggest you get a copy of Midtown Madness and drive on the left.  If you can avoid hitting anything, you should be alright when you pull out of the tunnel.

Mark Croasdale

A better and cheaper idea would be to find Need for Speed 2 (You can probably find it for around $10-$15 these days), choose the Jaguar XJ220 as your car and
Australia as your track.  The Jag is Right-hand drive and on the Aussie track all the cars drive on left.  While you have it check out the rest of the game,
it's pretty good considering it came out over 2 years ago.

Sam

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On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:39:10 -0400, The Johnson Family

Need for Speed 2 was so bad tha it would probably put people off
driving if it were anything like it is in real life.

;-)

If it is just for a few days, don't drive and go by cab!! You will save
yourself alot of hassles, and a few scary moments.

hehe, i agree SSSSOOOOOOOOOOOO much!

and also he can get more money taken off him that he should have?

the cab drivers over here aren't honest, and yes, i am english, i live in
england and always have done - i don't trust em!!!

hehehehe....

than the famous buses and underground!

Don't worry about it.  I spent two weeks in the UK after 15 years of
driving on the right.  We rented a car which was bigger than my usual one,
and apart from a few trips over the curbs in town I didn't find it so
strange.  The only thing that I had trouble with was positioning the car
for parking etc., as your mind builds a natural "feel" for where the sides
of the car are relative to you, and this gets flipped around.  But
generally, driving was no problem on the motorway, A-roads and even those
crazy little things they like to call B-roads, but which are actually just
an extended footpath.  roundabouts are brilliant, and I can't imagine how
anyone can find them challenging - they are a dream for keeping traffic
moving along.  turning right will be a little interesting; just take a
little extra time to look both ways one extra time.

It's a piece of cake.  have fun.
Stephen

: hello

: i am looking for a car/traffic simulator (if possible on mac) to practice
: left driving (yes i am going to the uk...)

: thanks in advance for your help.

: philip

Depends where you are... I don't recall having problems in London. The
black cabs are generally honest and the people who tout for business can
usually be argued down to a decent level before you get into the cab.

The only problem with mini-cabs where you don't agree a price beforehand
and some black cabs is that their route finding can sometimes leave a
little to be desired and they have been known to take shitty routes.

M

If the black cabs in London take a shitty route it is because they know that
the regular route is even more shitty. They are acutely aware of road works,
blocks, traffic jams and busy hours. The London cabby has to take an exam
(the so called "knowledge") that takes around 2 years to study for,
acquiring an encyclopedic knowledge of the London street plan. Occasionally
you can see people cycling, or riding a moped, through London with a street
map, making notes. These do not look like tourists, and they essentially are
not looking for the way to Hyde Park or Piccadilly. These are the people
preparing for the "knowledge".

Dolle Dolf

Driving on the left is not as bad as it seems. I don't think it is worth
sacrificnig precious GPL time for it hehe. As soon as you enter traffic
(straight off the Oostende ferry?) you will be in the traffic stream, and
you just go with the flow.  Coming from Holland I also had to adapt to it
and it was essentially a doddle. The most confusing part initially I found
the roundabouts, which you of course enter to the left. This goes quite
against to what you are used to. And beware the times that you are slow,
tired and distracted. The only times that I found myself accidently hugging
the wrong side of the street was when I was preoccupied finding someone's
house number, and another time when I was looking for road signs. These are
the tmies that you are not fully concentrated in traffic and that is when
you fall back on your previously learnt behaviour.

You will find yourself reach for the gear change with your wrong hand more
than once though ;-) unless you take your continental vehicle with you. If
you do you will have good use for a right wing mirror.

I actually prefer driving the English way now.

Dolle Dolf

Forget the simulator, just go ahead with the real thing.

Jens

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:02:30 +0200, "philip adam"

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