driving with your W A S D Keys might help you rather then arrow keys, as for a good driving simulator thats realistic, I believe there are none, My guess is it'd be too big in size and Need so many resources it'd be impractical.... Then would there be a market, thats why you dont see them.... I always imagined an Expanded Version of the Driver Series in the entire united states and canada, where you drive city to city and do stuff as you please like GTA or Drivers 3..... But nobody has done this, oh I wish they would! Be fun.... Cheers, Gunny

Remember, if their isnt market potential, companies wont make it, all they want is MONEY and some more MONEY!!!

The problem with a driving simulator is who really wants it? There are only markets for simulators when it isn't so easy for someone to do the activity for real and with driving that just isn't the case as most people before their 20 will be capable of driving a real car in the real world thereby making a simulator unecessasary for most.

I agree with Craig. There might be a market for a realistic driving simulator targeted at 10-15 year olds.  Parents and school driver ed. departments would really go for it and there are a number of good steering and pedal controllers available.  As far as what's available for realism in a driving sim I suggest the various NASCAR sims.  They are modeled according to the rules of that year, IE: pit road speed limits, spoiler angle specifications, gearing set-ups, etc.  In most of them you can get to do crew cheif things as well in the set-up screens etc.  I myself being a NASCAR fan would love to enjoy those sims except that there is no true manual transmission modeling for a PC yet.  Clutch emulation is not realized in any way and if it was, there are no 3 pedal driving controllers available anyway.

The only thing I've seen which approaches what you want is Microsoft's Midtown Madness.  Don't know if you can still get it.  I wouldn't call this a "sim", more of a game.  I don't think you'll find it totally satisfying but it's old enough that you should be able to turn up a copy real cheap.  It's fun for some laughs, and maybe you could even teach a new driver how to drive with it (although driving within the limits of the law doesn't work out well with other traffic in this game, the other cars don't know what to do and end up veering out of control).

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Close? you have no idea how far off the mark it is. 

car gps systems are too complex and slow for anything like a speedy getaway down back roads. considering their accuracy down back roads they would likely get you caught:)

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No criminal would use a game to practice and plan getaways.