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November 30, 2021 12:45 am
Original Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/11/29/2155227/south-korea-will-use-vr-to-determine-if-the-elderly-can-keep-driving?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&ut
South Korea Will Use VR To Determine If the Elderly Can Keep Driving
The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) is pushing for the implementation of conditional driver's licenses for the elderly by 2025, Yonhap News reports. How they'll determine who gets to keep their licenses will be via virtual reality. The Next Web reports: As of Monday, a three-year research project has been introduced, which will employ VR tech to assess whether drivers aged 65 years and older can remain behind the wheel. The program's total budget is expected to reach approximately $3 million (3.6 billion won). Contrary to other countries around the word, South Korea has no strict regulations regarding the driving license of seniors, unless they test positive for dementia. Currently, two measures apply: the three-year license renewal period for those aged 75 years and older, and the voluntary return of the driver's license for people over 65 years-old. However, the KNPA is still raising concerns over the number of accidents attributed to senior drivers, as well as the continuous aging of the country's population. The VR test will asses driving, cognitive, and memory skills using a VR headset, close to how virtual reality technology is used in dementia clinics to check the brain functions of older people. While the specifics are yet to be disclosed, a similar academic research by independent scientists has run an experiment, testing driving performance evaluation based on virtual reality tech. The researchers conducted driving simulator experiments to measure various driving behaviors under many different driving conditions, in order to examine the participants' visual acuity. The virtual simulations included two scenarios: daytime and nighttime highway driving. In both cases, three unexpected incidents were created to test the drivers' performance [...].Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/11/29/2155227/south-korea-will-use-vr-to-determine-if-the-elderly-can-keep-driving?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&ut
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