ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — What if job training was as easy as playing a video game? That’s the mindset behind the New York State Department of Transportation’s new snowplow simulator.
The mobile unit contains a small switchboard and a joystick, all things a snowplow operator needs to know how to use when on the job. Officials said the idea for the simulator came about when the state modernized the technology inside the plows.
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It allows instructors to train drivers on the new technology from the safety of a trailer before they have to go out in dangerous conditions.
“If you think about what we do for the state, we’re 24/7 to keep our roads safe,” NYSDOT Equipment Operator Instructor Steven Kane said. “We’re here to maintain the roads. Not only for just the general public, but if you think about it — for the police, fire, emergency vehicles. And like I tell people all the time, the safest place to be is behind one of these trucks in a snowstorm.”…