Patent ID: 7246050

Claim:
A mobile vehicle operation and hazard encounter simulator comprising: a vehicle having at least one vehicle control and operated to move freely in a natural environment and thereby provide normal non-visual motion cues; a scene generator; a scene display in communication with said scene generator and viewable by a vehicle operator; an environment view being presented on said scene display created at least in part by said scene generator; and at least one virtual image not existing in said natural environment and visually superposed on said natural environment by the scene generator into said environment view and presented on said scene display so as to appear fixed or moving in a controlled fashion in said environment view, wherein said mobile vehicle operation and hazard encounter simulator carries said vehicle operator and is controlled by said vehicle operator in accordance with said environment view, said vehicle responding to actuation of said at least one vehicle control and said environment view responding to at least one of said at least one vehicle control, operator movement, and vehicle movement.