Prior to the passive safety, the active safety is now an urgent problem for vehicle safety. To improve the active safety performance of vehicles, it becomes more important to grasp the ordinary driver's behaviors for considering a driver-vehicle closed loop system. For observation of the driver's behavior, it is necessary to reproduce driving situations and analyze the driver's performance. In this study, three kinds of driving simulators were newly designed and developed for examining the ordinary driver's maneuvers under various driving conditions. These simulators were classified into the standing type and the motion type. The latter type was divided into 2DOF and 6DOF according to the degrees of freedom for simulating the motion. The features of individual simulators and their application to driving maneuver analysis are shown in this paper.
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