DRIVER BEHAVIOR IN CONTROLLING A DRIVING SIMULATOR WITH VARYING STABILITY

THE WAY DRIVERS COMPENSATE THEIR DRIVING BEHAVIOR FOR VEHICLE INSTABILITY IS STUDIED. THE BACKGROUND OF MAN-MACHINE SIMULATION AND THE USE OF DRIVING SIMULATORS IN THE UNITED STATES ARE ALSO BRIEFLY OUTLINED. THE PROBLEM WAS INVESTIGATED BY MEANS OF A FIXED BASE DRIVING SIMULATOR WITH A TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM ANALOGUE SIMULATION OF VEHICLE DYNAMICS. AN EXPERIMENT WITH NINE SUBJECTS, DRIVING TWO VEHICLES, ONE UNDERSTEER AND ONE OVERSTEER, SIMULATED TO BE TRAVELLING AT 60 MPH IS DESCRIBED, AND DERIVED RESULTS GIVEN. WHILE DRIVING, THE VEHICLES WERE SUBJECTED TO A RANDOM APPEARING GUST SPECTRA HAVING A MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE EQUIVALENT TO 10 MPH. METHODS OF ASSESSING OVERALL DRIVING PERFORMANCE AND WHAT THE DRIVERS DID IN THE TWO VEHICLES ARE DEVELOPED, AND THE RESULTS, IN TERMS OF A DRIVING ERROR AND A CONTROL RESPONSE FUNCTION, ARE PRESENTED. IT WAS FOUND THAT SEVEN OUT OF NINE DRIVERS HAD A CONTROL RESPONSE FUNCTION THAT WAS HIGHER WITH THE OVERSTEERING CAR. THE REMAINING TWO SUBJECTS HAD THE HIGHEST ERROR SCORES WITH THE UNDERSTEERING VEHICLE. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rept No PAPER-2
• Corporate Authors:

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• Authors:
  • HALES, F D
  • Jurkat, M P
• Publication Date: 1969

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 82-90

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Drivers; Driving simulators; Human machine systems; Reaction time; Stability analysis; Steering
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver reaction
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221811
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 11 1973 12:00AM