Abstract
Observing the driver's behavior by reproducing traffic accidents and conflict situations are effective in investigating the causes of accidents. In previous studies, driving simulators were often used in reproducing accident and conflict scenes, but such systems had difficulties in reproducing in realistic situations. Therefore, a novel instrumented vehicle was developed to reproduce realistic traffic accident and conflict scenarios without the dangers of an actual collision. A person could drive the instrumented vehicle by viewing a frontal driving scene projected to LCDs which were fixed to the front of the driver. In this paper, we confirmed acceptability and controllability of the instrumented vehicle in driving. After that, three critical situations were reproduced by superimposing virtual objects on the frontal scene, rear end, angle and pedestrian. The results indicated that the instrumented vehicle might be effective to reproduce these critical situations.
