Hi everyone! Which car would you guys think is ideal for learning to drive? I'd love to have as much of reality in the mix as possible. The idea is to create a virtual copy of driving a real car in order to learn, how a car reacts, what a clutch does, when and how to brake, etc. Intended purpose is to give a 12-year old girl an idea of a car without compromising my "real" car's health... It would be important to me, that the car * is easy to drive * has manual shifting in H-pattern * can stall the engine with wrong clutch usage * can break the gearbox on wrong clutch or shifting usage Any hints? Maybe the Uno or the old Mini? Best regards, herakles
Nice idea! The old Puma GTE or the Chevrolet Chevette or the Formula Junior would also be an option I guess. Good luck and have fun!
I honestly don't think any kind of race car is appropriate to introduce the working of the car or road sense. I would suggest you try something like city driving which will do exactly those things you say plus it supports vr too.
I fully support your thoughts, but such software is built for US-American or Canadian roads as far as I know. As we are living in Europe, lots of the rules won't apply here, so I fear to teach "the wrong stuff". Thanks anyways everyone for your valuable thoughts! herakles
I did this with my daughter before she got in a real car and it helped her a lot. I used the VWs in the game as a base and gave her easy flat tracks to start. Then moved on to longer harder tracks while obeying the rules of a real road. Stay in your lane. Eventually moved her to rain and she did really well. Its much easier to break bad habits in the virtual world before they get behind the wheel of a real car. She actually surprised me by how fast she picked it up and before long was getting around pretty quickly. Im talking highway speeds not race speeds.lol
To what extent? My two boys learn how to use the clutch in BeamNG and they're doing just fine. They are 7 and 12 years old. Can't imagine how it could be of disadvantage ...I wish I had that opportunity back then.
If it's just learning how to work a clutch that's one thing, but beyond that, nothing really translated into real driving...for my kiddo at least. She said it would have been better to not know anything and get a feel for a real vehicle first a few times and then jump on the sim and go from there. Could be a one off, but she reminded me several times starting on the sim was not ideal for her.
Hi, I used to have a Fiat Uno (1990 facelift version, 2 door) The handling of the car in the sim is very close to the real one albeit i have not driven the Uno in the sim since several major updates (1.3xxx)
BMW 2002 Turbo perhaps? Beyond that... If manual transmission and clutch weren't as important, I'd definitely say one of the VW TSI cup cars - especially the non-GTI VW Virtus because it is relatively heavy and not that powerful, and its balance, weight distribution, suspension etc. are similar enough to many somewhat modern everyday road cars.
