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Driving simulator upgraded

The TRL’s car driving simulator has notched up 100,000 miles (160,000km) and has never driven anywhere.
February 22, 2012 Read time: 1 min
The 777 TRL’s car driving simulator has notched up 100,000 miles (160,000km), and has never driven anywhere, and to celebrate the achievement it has been renamed DigiCar. It has undergone extensive upgrades to its projection system with two new state-of-the-art front projectors and an update to the software that runs the driving simulator.

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