Teaching Teenagers with Autism How to Drive Using Virtual Reality
From: Medical Design Technology - 07/26/2016

A virtual reality simulator specifically designed to help teenagers with
autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, learn how to drive has been developed by
researchers at Vanderbilt University.

The Vanderbilt VR Adaptive Driving Intervention Architecture (VADIA) is
specifically designed to teach adolescents with ASD the basic rules of the
road, and gathers information about the unique ways that they react to
driving situations. This allows the system to alter driving scenarios with
varying degrees of difficulty to provide users with the training they need
while keeping them engaged in the process. Ultimately, it may also help
screen individuals whose deficits are too severe to drive safely.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.mdtmag.com/news/2016/07/teaching-teenagers-autism-how-drive-using-virtual-reality

Links:
Using virtual reality to help teenagers with autism learn how to drive (with
  video 2:52)
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/07/using-virtual-reality-to-help-teenagers-with-autism-learn-how-to-drive

Amy Weitlauf
http://pediatrics.mc.vanderbilt.edu/directory.php?did=12956

A Gaze-Contingent Adaptive Virtual Reality Driving Environment for
  Intervention in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2892636

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-autism-spectrum-disorders