Customer Projects

Start Out Right

Start Out Right is a driver training company, based in Orange County, California. Its services aim to bring the highest level of driver training previously available to only military and law enforcement personnel to the newest and most vulnerable driving population, teenage drivers. The company has created a curriculum that includes online, classroom, behind the wheel, and advanced driving skills training, and utilises its founders' experience in military training, education, and computer technology. Start Out Right uses a Cruden simulator for instructor and advanced driver training purposes.

"Simulation brings a whole new level of training to new drivers. Using simulation we are able to put our students in dangerous situations without putting them in danger, over and over again. Through repetition and training, they are able to learn how to handle dangerous situations on the street quickly and effectively. It is the last step before sending them out onto our streets and highways."

Jack Bailey
Start Out Right Driver Training, Orange County, CA, USA

For more information go to www.startoutright.com

Loughborough University - Automobile and Aeronautical Engineering

The teaching of Automobile and Aeronautical Engineering at Loughborough, UK, started in 1919 and 1935 respectively and the university department has since gained a national and international reputation for research. Based at a purpose-built £14 million facility, the extensive laboratories and experimental facilities used for undergraduate teaching include a computer-controlled chassis dynamometer with an exhaust emissions measurement system, low speed wind tunnels, an instrumented turbojet engine, a structural dynamics and acoustics laboratory, numerous instrumented test vehicles, and an electric vehicle research laboratory...... in addition to a Cruden aircraft and road vehicle simulator.

"The simulator is used to provide a realistic experience of flight dynamics to all our first year aeronautical engineering students, and is also invaluable for teaching the principles of vehicle dynamics to our automotive students in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Our ability to implement our own vehicle models in Simulink, and the high bandwidth and innovative vehicle motion cueing has also been used to great effect on two PhD projects. And although our simulator was installed 7 years ago, Cruden continue to provide us with excellent support, and invaluable new features in upgraded software as it becomes available."

Matt Best
Senior Lecturer in Vehicle Dynamics
Loughborough University Automobile and Aeronautical Engineering department, Loughborough, UK