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Sheriff highlights new driving simulators at Cochise College as training and liability-reduction tool
Summary
Sheriff Mark Daniels described a grant-backed driving-simulator training setup at Cochise College that maps county roads and will be used for law-enforcement training.
Sheriff Mark Daniels told KWCD’s First Watch that Cochise College recently installed three marked Tahoe vehicles converted into immersive driving simulators for law-enforcement training. Daniels said the simulators are part of a grant and technology demonstration developed with a Canadian company and the college.
He described the vehicles as “state of the art” and said every window in the Tahoe operates as a screen to create a driving scenario. The sheriff said the system can simulate county roads and scenarios, and that remote operators control scenarios to provide realistic training that Daniels said will reduce liability and improve preparedness.
Daniels said the simulators are co-funded by a grant between Cochise College and the sheriff’s office and that the county expects the setup to draw interest from other agencies for demonstrations. He did not provide grant amounts or the company name beyond describing it as a Canadian firm that built the demo platform.
