The 2010 Japanese User Conference was held November 9 in Tokyo. Dr. Michael Sayers presented the first keynote lecture: "New requirements for vehicle simulation and new software solutions." The examples involve CarSim, but generally apply also to TruckSim and BikeSim. An extended version of the lecture is provided here in five video clips.

Overview of software and roots of development (8 min)

Main features and applications (17 min)

Recent features, traffic, sensors (12 min)

Introducing "Mr. Wizard" (Jumping back in time) (9 min)

Future features; Visualizer, driver model (10 min)

Use this link to access the MP4 video file without going through the Flash player: wizard/video.mp4.

Extra: If you have CarSim 8.03, you can run Mr. Wizard. Click here to download the example datasets used in the video. Depending on which browser you use, you might need to unzip the consolidsted parsfile mr_wizard.cpar that you will import into a CarSim 8.03 database.