DriveSafety has an impressive list of customers at some of the world’s leading universities, automobile manufacturers, rehabilitation centers and private research labs. DriveSafety supports these customers’ research goals with an extensive line of driving simulators, scenario design and data collection tools, technical support and an on-line forum for driving research and simulation discussions.
Researchers use DriveSafety’s DS-600, DS-250 and DS-100 simulation systems along with two key software packages:
- HyperDrive Authoring Suite™, an advanced scenario authoring tool set and graphical library.
- Vection™, the run-time simulation software that provides vehicle dynamics, instrumentation I/O processing, scenario control, and data collection.
DriveSafety’s simulation systems are used by subject-matter experts to conduct research in automotive and roadway design, traffic control and safety measures, human-machine interaction, impact of prescription drugs on drivers, and many characteristics of drivers themselves, such as perception, judgment, and response to different traffic situations, a driver’s fitness or impairments for driving whether physical or cognitive, and other issues of driver choice and behavior.
The simulators allow researchers to use consistent and repeatable driving experiences to study different drivers in an unlimited number of virtual driving environments. The following are areas of scholarship that researchers use DriveSafety driving simulation systems: