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I would love a real world driving sim. I don’t really care for driving on race tracks, but real roads.

I've always said, a version of Grand Theft Auto, but with a real map of [your city], and with cops that enforce driving rules, would be a priceless tool for teaching young drivers.

After I passed driver's ed, I still spent the next two years getting lost within a few miles of my house. But drop me in any alley in GTA5 and I can get to any other spot in a pretty short path (although I confess it often does involve dangerous jumps).

Midtown Madness 1 & 2 are most similar to what you are looking for.

it's one of those things I'd do as a millionaire.

Some people would buy boats, private planes, art, ... I would hire a team to replicate my child neighbourhood perfectly in a gran turismo or preferably GTA 5 engine lol. You'd get pretty far with a million USD in the modding community

Lol, if I were a millionaire I'd probably buy half a house somewhere kind of nice.

You’d get flewced pretty quickly in any modding community.

They could live stream the local radio for the soundtrack.

I made a basic version of this to help me pass the UK driving test, which is fairly difficult: 40 minutes of virtually error-free driving is required and the pass rate is 50%.

It's 2.5D, I used a 3D engine but the graphics are just satellite imagery projected on to a terrain map.

>> would be a priceless tool for teaching young drivers.

And an amazing resource for organizing street racing or any other event where knowledge of average police response times might be useful. Playtesting exactly how one can best evade pursuing police on realworld streets would be very fun.

American Truck Simulator has 300 cities and it takes 3 hours to drive across the map in real time. It's probably the biggest world in a driving game.

The cities (at least for ETS) are a miniature version with only a couple of streets and some landmarks (in larger cities). It doesn't really come close to reality.

American Truck simulator comes close. But something like that bootstrapped of open street maps could be awesome.

BeamNG comes remarkably close in experience, although not in real world. I would love to have MSFS world as a driving game like BeamNG.

Check out Euro Truck Simulator then, I hear it's very good.

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