This study explores inter-individual differences in proneness to simulator sickness between persons who prematurely quit a test drive in a fixed-base driving simulator and persons who successfully complete the entire testdrive. Subjects were 65 experienced drivers (age range 30 - 80 years). Results show that significantly more senior drivers than middle aged driversand significantly more drivers with poor eyesight suffered severe symptoms of simulator sickness. Among the elderly drivers those subjects with a lower mileage per year were more prone to suffer from simulator sickness than subjects with a higher traffic participation as car drivers. 90 % of the subjects, who had to quit because of simulator sickness could be correctly identified by means of the questionnaire, and 70,5 % of the subjects who did not suffer from any symptoms. (Author/publisher).
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