A driver-training apparatus including means for simulating various driving conditions, such as fixed objects in the path of the driver, passing situations, varying weather conditions, varying types of automobiles, and other conditions customarily encountered in day-by-day driving. There is a console for the student driver which includes the conventional brake, accelerator and steering wheel, as well as various meters for use by the student to determine his effectiveness in driving. There is a control unit operated by the instructor whereby he may program certain driving conditions to which the student must react while sitting at the training console.
An instructive device for use in driver education and driver improvement applications for testing perception and reaction times of a student, and for measuring the student'perception and reaction time as influenced by simulated conditions of blood alcohol concentrations; and relating the measured perception and reaction time of the student to vehicular stopping times and distances under various combinations of road surface conditions and vehicular speeds.
An apparatus for determining a test subject's level of intoxication. Included is a display visible to the test subject and in which is produced by test equipment a pair of randomly moving, spaced apart objects. The test subject operates an actuator to indicate his selections of changing imaginary positions in the display having a predetermined constant spatial relationship to the moving objects. Dynamically determined by a computer system are the actual locations of those positions which are compared with the test subject's selections. Because of the requirement for determining imaginary positions by mental extrapolation, a very rigorous test of the subject's psychomotor capability is obtained.
A lamp assembly in which the lamp housing has a plurality of light bulb sockets and a slot for receiving an electric ribbon cable. The ribbon cable consists of a laminate of dielectric material having a plurality of electrical conductors embedded therein, the conductors having contact surfaces exposed through strategically placed windows in the dielectric material of the ribbon cable. Contact means retained within the housing extend from the exposed contact surface on a specific conductor to a specific light bulb socket.
A toy racing game accessory comprising a tachometer and fuel gauge. The tachometer includes a rack and pinion assembly which is driven by a linear actuator. A tachometer needle is coupled to the rack and pinion assembly. The action of the linear actuator is proportioned to the amplitude of current passing through the track rails and toy car motor as determined by a speed throttle. The fuel gauge includes a ratchet wheel. The rack and pinion assembly includes a pawl which advances the ratchet wheel if the tachometer needle is made to advance beyond a predetermined threshold speed. The ratchet pawl advances the ratchet wheel so as to cause the fuel gauge needle to advance towards "empty". The amount of advance of the fuel gauge needle depends on the swing of the tachometer. When the fuel gauge reads "empty" a cammed microswitch opens to cut off all power to the track rails and bring the racing car to a halt.
This specification discloses an automatic malfunction insertion system for a flight simulator wherein the operating conditions under which each aircraft malfunction is likely to occur are stored and compared with actual simulator conditions. Out of the most likely malfunctions as determined by the comparison one is randomly selected for insertion in the simulator, and means are provided to cycle through all possible malfunction before repeating any one malfunction.
