The claim:

Today, simulators are not very accurate as in real world driving. However, I am a genius, who has come up with a solution to this problem. By incorporating real cars, and real roads, all without being in the driver's seat, this could revolutionize driving simulators forever.

What exactly is it?

Well, it actually is a method I call, “Predriving.” It is where you actually mimic drivers actions from the passengers seat. Now, you might be wondering, “how can mimicking from the passenger's seat help?” Well, it is not just mimicry, you also have to be aware of the entire surroundings too, not just tahe mimicry.

Safety protocols:

Always do this out of sight of the driver's eyes, or line of sight. Never make these visible to the driver, as it can be distracting.

DO NOT press anything or interfere with the car.

Always be in the appropriate seat, with fastened seatbelt, and have a qualified driver.

The pedals: Mimicry: Imagine a straight line that is vertical and slightly tilted forward. Using this method, you can actually shape your foot as if you are pressing the pedals rather than just pressing on the floor. Also, for the brake, it is basically the same thing. Another way is to look at the pedals of the car, and actually shape your foot as if you were pressing them, but resist motion to mimic resistance.

Steering:

Hold 2 clenched fists in the air, as if you were holding it. Mimic resistance with your muscle strength too, based on surface, (is it rainy, dry, or snowy?)

Mimic turning on a/c, defroster, etc

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Why does it surpass simulators?

Right here, I will describe why it’s accuracy surpasses simulators:

For a right turn, mimic braking, and engage foot muscles to mimic resistance based on road texture. I will emphasize that you rely heavily on G-forces rather than actually seeing the drivers input, though useful. Use g-forces to estimate how much to mimic braking. Now, after mimicking braking, mimic signalling. Check the entire vehicle. If mirrors are not available or obstructed, look very briefly behind. Check blind spots. Once the vehicle stops, (actual driver actually stopped it), feel the suspension of the car. Look both ways. As that same passenger, decide if it's safe to move. If it's safe to move, the actual driver will check, and if your prediction is correct, he will move. If the prediction is wrong, he won’t move. This is all based on the actual drivers checks too. Now, the coolest part is that you need to match the actual driver's turning. So, it takes practice to learn it, but you’ll get the hang of it. Mimic accelerating, shaping your foot like pressing it and at the same time, mimic turning the wheel a certain amount. The amount you mimic turning the wheel with clenched fists must match how much the actual driver turned the wheel. To estimate how much to move the wheel. Consider speed, angle, and car type. After mimicking turning it, then mimic straightening up. Use lateral and vertical g-forces to guide you in this process. Also, it is important to mimic braking or steering to unpredictable traffic too!

For a left turn, mimic stopping, by shaping your foot like pressing the brake. As the actual driver brakes, use g-forces to help you estimate how much to mimic braking. Mimic signalling. Actually hear the engine RPM go down. Once the car stops, feel the suspension. Look both ways and determine if it is safe to move. If so, the actual driver checks. To know if your prediction of, “it's safe to move” is correct, the actual driver will move after his checks if it is safe. Mimic turning the wheel. The amount you mimicked turning must match the actual driver's steering input. If you can do this mimicry without looking, and correctly estimate how much the driver will move the wheel, while also mimicking acceleration and turning wheel, feeling g-forces, it would be nearly indistinguishable from real driving. Also, mimic braking un-expected obstacles, and even mimic straightening up. When you mimic straightening with your clenched fist, it must match the exact timing for when the actual driver straightens up. As the car accelerates, mimic acceleration, and the catch is that you need to feel vibrations of the car, not mimic it. This is due to the car's inertia, where the movement causes the driver and passengers to feel the seat vibrations.

For intersections, look both ways. You know how to mimic braking. Once the car stops, feel the suspension and g-forces. It requires knowledge of road rules to predict when the driver will move. This is because of a fundamental factor called right of way. Once the car stops, you need to look for cars that stopped first, cars that stopped second, cars on your right, cars on your left, pedestrians and oncoming traffic to know who has right of way. If you do have the right of way, mimic acceleration, but actually feel the g-forces to help you know how much to mimic pressing it. Also, when going straight, there is a difference in the angle sometimes. Now, for this, mimic the subtle wheel movements as well.

Yellow light:

Predict if it is safe to continue or stop. Use g-forces to see if your answer was correct.

Braking:

You already know how to mimic braking. But where do you mimic braking? Actually, you can use this mimicked braking only for the following reasons:

1. Stop sign, use g-forces to predict if when you mimicked pressing brake was actually true, actual driver will press brake at a certain time

2. There are brake lights ahead. It takes practice to estimate when to mimic braking.

3. In an emergency situation, like a car breakdown or a car swerving into your lane: requires constant scanning and peripheral vision and practice (with refined reflexes)

4. Whenever you sense G-forces of the car slowing down

5. When you hear the engine noise reduced

6. When the speedometer shows that the driver is decelerating. 

7. Changing traffic conditions, density

8. Changes in weather conditions

Lane changing:

Now, due to previous sections, you already know that mirrors can be obstructed in the passenger's seat. Well, to fix this, follow these steps:

1. Mimic signalling

2. Check mirrors ( even if unclear)

3. Look behind to compensate for the obstructed mirror. ( watch out for cars in the blind spot, or rear side windows, and sides that cannot be seen. Look behind for cars approaching rapidly or are too close.) If your prediction of, “It’s safe to switch lanes” is correct, the actual driver will check, and then if he also sees that it is safe, he will switch lanes. Estimate how much to move the mimicked wheel too. If it matches the actual driver’s wheel movement, you get 2 points or more. 3 points for reacting to unpredictable elements too.

Lane choice:

Since you aren’t in control of the car, you can gain some control without touching a single thing. Unlike being a backseat driver, you are in this case, providing the driver with useful information. If the road has 2 lanes, you can tell the driver ONLY if he is in the left lane or right lane (wrong lane) AND it is wrong for that specific maneuver, to switch to the correct lane. Never mention this if the driver is in the correct lane.

PARKING:

Forward parking:

Mimic pressing brake. Look for oncoming traffic in the parking lot, and predict if it's safe to turn. Any oncoming traffic means it is unsafe to turn. Predict where the driver wants to park and how much he will turn the wheel. Feel the resistance by engaging your arm and hip muscles. Predict if it is safe to either release the brake or press the gas. Compare this prediction to what the pedal actual driver is pressing. Predict when to mimic straightening up, and if the car is at an angle too. Actually check to see if the car is at an angle. IF not, mimic pressing the brake lightly harder, and also, with your fist horizontally, mimic shifting to park and look for where the parking brake is and without touching it, mimic turning it on at the same time the driver does.

For more information about how your foot should be shaped, I have included an image here if you are confused:

See my Right foot? That is mimicking pressing the accelerator

In image 2, see how I actually mimicked pressing the accelerator? Now, it’s important, notice the foot movement compared to image one.

See how my foot moved to the brake? It was hovering now on it. But in the second figure, I pressed it in. As you mimic pressing it in, try to add some resistance by opposing the motion of your foot.

At the same time, I mimicked holding the wheel. You know how to mimic turning it too. Feel resistance by engaging both hand and foot muscles. Only thing is that you are in a real car not at home, so you can feel a variety of things like:

1. G-forces

2. Vibrations

3. Suspension (once car stops)

4. Kinesthetic feedback, being pushed back to seat during acceleration, or forwards during braking, even as a passenger

5. Lateral g-forces (if you don’t believe me, set up a camera in the car. Once it is moving, your body will be moving up and down, and when car stops, your body will move by itself)

6. See the forces of road irregularities, like how a pothole causes you to move too, and actually notice the cracks in the road

7. You can actually feel the forces of a collision

8. It requires split second decision making to mimic braking to an unpredictable hazard, not just braking but steering too, since you see actual people on real roads too. Use g-forces to justify. If the driver swerved right, your body would move left. If the driver braked, you would move suddenly forward.

9. Smells of gasoline, the smell of exhaust, and sound of the actual engine.

10. If you happen not to know the precise amount of how much to press the brake, the driver can use an object to describe how much he is pressing it (for initial practice) while you replicate it with your foot. 

11. You need to adjust for g-forces too, as well as for any heat. 

12. There are real world consequences for crashing, like a broken bone. If you mimicked and the driver is about to crash, a wrong warning would increase the chances of a crash, thus injury, and even a rear end (you have no control over that) could cause injury. So be careful

13. In a crash, you actually see the damage of the car.

14. Weather changes a lot, so be sure to adjust. For example, it starts raining. You mimic braking gradually or releasing gas because you made a prediction that is safe. You also mimicked lighter resistance and estimated a safe speed, doesn’t have to be exact!

15. You mimic braking to unpredictable things, like a deer coming out, or reacting to a brake failure, which is discussed later on.

16. You also feel changes in texture, through bumps. Less vibration = smoother road. More vibration = bumpy or rough road. You also hear the sound of other cars too. This is NOT your typical simulation. You are in the passenger seat.

17. Your ear senses movement in the car, while you are also looking ahead. This decreases the chances of motion sickness, unlike a simulator.

18. You cannot encounter technical issues because this is real world, not a simulation

19. It is unlikely that you would develop bad habits because you are also at the same time, addressing mistakes the driver makes, with an experienced driver.

20. Everything is realistic because it is in fact, a real world object, not even a photograph, NOT a simulation.

21. You can sometimes ask the driver: “How good is tire grip” so that you can mimic appropriate tire grip.

These are the reasons why it is more accurate than a simulator

Now, back to parking section:

Parallel parking

For parking, look behind to compensate for mirrors that are obstructed. Once you mimic braking, predict if the car is in the same direction adjacent to where the driver wants to parallel park. Mimic shifting to reverse. Now, look behind. Mimic turning the wheel right into the spot and mimicking releasing the brake. Predict how much the driver will turn the wheel, but don’t look at first. Afterwards, compare it with the actual driver’s turned amount. Now, predict if the car is 45 degree angle. Mimic turning straight, and predict when the driver will move the wheel left, and how much he will exactly move it, while also mimicking pressing/releasing the brake based on motion. Once the car is centered, mimic shifting to drive, turning the wheel all the way right, towards the curb, but like in the images provided above, do the same in a car. Mimic releasing the brake slightly. Mimic pressing the brake, shifting to park, and even setting the parking brake and turning the car off. Remember, don’t actually press anything.

Hill parking

1. Acknowledge it is a hill. Know whether it is an uphill or downhill.

2. Mimic shifting to Neutral without touching anything. Predict where to move the wheel, left or right based on uphill or downhill, while closely mirroring how much the actual driver turns the wheel.

How to mimic a U-turn:

Mimic braking. You already know how to mimic braking. Now, check for oncoming cars, and no u-turn signs to predict if it is safe to turn or not. Now mimic signalling. If you are unsure how to, here is an image on how to  mimic signalling. Focus closely on my left hand.

See how my hand mimicked reaching for the signal? Now, mimic braking. Look for any oncoming cars and predict when it's safe to go. Mimic turning the wheel a certain amount, but also look where you want to go. If you are unsure how to move the wheel, here is another image provided:

The amount you mimic turning must match how much the driver turned the wheel. You can try matching it without looking. Now, accurately mimic straightening up or releasing the wheel and imagining it going to center. 

Freeway driving mimicry:

The car is accelerating. You mimic acceleration. The car is going 40…50…60mph. Check. You should look and ask yourself, “Do we still need to accelerate? Are we near the speed flow of traffic?” Then, you need to look. If there is a gap in traffic, and look behind for cars rapidly approaching, mimic signalling only when the driver does. Everything I have been talking about is only when the driver does it. Now mimic signalling, look for a gap, and predict if it is safe for the car to enter there. Once the car is at the flow, mimic easing off the accelerator, slightly. Now, we are at 65mph. We move to the left lane, and we accelerate faster, so mimic pressing the accelerator more and then easing off. At 70mph, or when we are going in a straight line, at any speed really, you need to do this in passengers seat:

1. Check mirror even if obstructed

2. When you see brake lights, mimic braking, but if you mimic braking exactly when the driver does it, you get 1 point. To know if it is exactly when the driver braked, feel the g-forces of braking.

3. Multitask: even mimic turning the radio up to a certain level while paying attention to the road too, and even mimic making micro adjustments while paying attention to the road.

4. Coordination: Mimic turning the wheel on a curve too, while also paying attention to the road. Also, actually use your peripheral vision at the same time, so you can see unexpected obstacles and mimic braking to them, e.g., animal steps onto the road or erratic driver speeding. You see a car unexpectedly switch lanes. Mimic pressing brake, but hearing engine decelerate, and to know if your reactions were good, the time you mimicked braking must be at or before the time the driver pressed the brake.

5. On a curve, feel the lateral g-forces

6. Mimic using the brake or decelerating due to traffic buildup or density, or decrease in engine noise.

7. Notice how the sun's glare, or even rainy days can impact the visual field. 

8. Also, mimic operating the headlights or low beam at night or in low visibility.

9. Distractions would lead to mismatches in their mimicry, as well as drowsiness and alcohol. With alcohol, this mimicry would be less than 50% accurate. Never do such a thing too.

10. Mimic braking when there are cars approaching the merging ramp or when there are brake lights ahead.

11. Estimate a good speed and check the actual speedometer to justify your estimate.

12. Lastly, address anything the driver does wrong, e.g. speeding, not enough following distance.

Do these checks, however, a true distraction, like being on the phone or eating, would definitely cause a mismatch between mimicry and real driving. Also, you make quick decisions. The way to do it is like this:

Quickly predict what the driver will do in this situation. Now, quickly mimic it using the diagram above.

For exiting, Mimic using turn signal, and based on gps direction, mimic switching lanes. Now, on the exit ramp, mimic releasing gas and even if obstructed, use the car mirror. Mimic braking, and the timing of when you mimicked braking must match when the driver does it. Once the car stops to 0mph, your qualified instructor number 2 will grade how many maneuvers matched actual driving.

To mimic reversing, you need to mimic shifting to reverse, and actually checking behind for any approaching cars. If it is safe, the actual driver will check. Now, mimic releasing the brake. Mimic turning the wheel, and predict when to start moving it. Once at the desired angle, mimic shifting to drive, and the amount you mimic turning or braking must match how much the actual driver turned the wheel, so do it without looking. Also, predict when it's safe to press the accelerator, while putting it into mimicked inputs.

Note: This method is not just for driving, but also for enjoying supercars, for example, a Bugatti Chiron or Aventador. However, it can be useful for driving too, and to test endurance. For example if you can mimic it for 4 hours, you are a pro at endurance, but remember, you need to take breaks. If you are tired, you need to tell the driver to pull over, and you also mimic pulling over, and remember, you cannot mimic driving in the rear left seat or the seat that is not directly behind the driver or beside the driver. If you are in the far rear seats, even behind the driver, this would also apply. This is due to obstruction reasons. Those seats are called rest seats. It is also crucial to incorporate driving simulators into this predriving method. This method even works for 0-60 or even a racetrack drifting.

To mimic shifting, here is what to do:

If you didn’t mimic a left turn correctly, here is what it would look like:

Actual driver                                                   You

For a lane change, if you didn’t mimic moving the wheel correctly:

Actual driver                                         You

If you said the box has right of way, you were wrong. If you said the book had right of way, you were right. However, if i stopped first, and the box stopped second, The box, me, would have right of way. 

However, this predriving alone is not enough. You should also be driving in a simulator too, as well as knowing math, as it can help, and physics. I forgot to mention that in freeway driving, you must know when we are also at the speed of traffic.

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