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Alexandra: The driving simulator
 is a great tool
to study driver behavior
 and driver safety. 
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Vishal: It involves finding out how
 driver awareness is affected 
by using adaptive cruise control
 while driving. 
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Alexandra: All this information is useful 
because it offers us 
completely controlled experiments. 
Now we can actually stage
 anything we want 
to see in the simulated environments. 
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Steven: The driving simulator here at KU 
provides a lot of opportunities
 for our students. 
We can show undergraduate students
 and potential undergraduate students
what real world transportation 
safety problems are
and start having them think 
about ways that they can find solutions.
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