Realistic Traffic

Realistic Traffic — smarter, livelier AI traffic for BeamNG.drive

Tired of AI traffic that weaves in single file and never overtakes? Realistic Traffic gives each car an AI driver of its own with its own character and teaches them to drive the way real people do.

CHARACTERS OF DRIVERS
Each AI machine gets its own driver: cautious, ordinary, aggressive or extremely aggressive. The combination depends on the car: a 60-horsepower city car is most often driven calmly, and a 600-horsepower supercar will often be pressed to the floor. Each driver chooses his own speed, so that two identical cars do not drive the same.

OVERTAKING ON MULTI-LANE ROADS
Fast drivers no longer sit behind slow cars. They check the adjacent lane, change lanes, overtake at full throttle and return as soon as the slow car is left behind.

OVERTAKING IN THE ONCOMING LANE
On two-lane roads, AI drivers can enter the oncoming lane to overtake. They assess visibility, oncoming traffic and how fast their car can actually accelerate before starting the maneuver. If something goes wrong, they interrupt their overtaking and hide back behind the car they were overtaking.

FLASHING HEADLIGHTS AND GIVING WAY
Aggressive drivers stuck behind a slow car in the fast lane flash their headlights, and the car in front reacts and moves to the right to let them pass. Drivers can blink at a slow car that is disturbing them, even in the middle of overtaking.

AND OTHER

Extremely aggressive drivers drive around slow cars, moving into the clear lane on the right.

Trucks and buses behave like trucks and buses: they never overtake.

Balanced traffic: the game will reduce traffic across all power classes, from small city cars to supercars.

Faster and more decisive acceleration for AI traffic.

IN-GAME MENU
Press «-» (minus key) to open a small menu. Turn each function on and off, force the driver lineup (all cautious, all aggressive, 50/50…) and show the character of each driver above the car. Your settings are saved.

Requires BeamNG.drive 0.40. Works with the game’s own traffic system: no additional setup is needed.
Note: This mod changes the AI driver code, so it may not work together with other mods that also change the AI.

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