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Insurance company Liberty Mutual has created Driver Seat, which they bill as "the world's first senior driving simulator." The game strives to recreate the perceptual and reaction limitations of drivers aged 65, 75, or 85 through four scenarios (suburban, wilderness, urban, outskirts) each with several missions.
It's a nice idea, and the implementation is attractive, but the problem is that the cars in the game are difficult to control in any circumstance, as is the case in many Flash games of this style. Some of the minigames, e.g. the first-person game that simulates a lack of peripheral vision, work more effectively. But all in all, it's hard to separate the hard-to-control-on-account-of-age from the plain old vanilla flavored hard-to-control.
(via Game Culture
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