The purpose of this study was to compare driver performance of 17 conventional automotive instrument panel (IP) tasks on the road and in the driving simulator and to validate use of the simulator in evaluation of an IP design. Introduction of random crosswind was shown to influence the driving workload in the simulator. Comparisons of the visual attentional and manual demand measures demonstrated that a driving environment close to that in the car is provided by the simulator at zero crosswind level and that the driving simulator can be used to evaluate automotive IP designs.
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