抄録
For reducing traffic accidents by aged drivers, researchers on active and passive safety technologies and driver characteristics have been carried out. However, several research achievements are little effective for aged drivers since the characteristics of aged drivers are distinguished from normal drivers and difficult to analyze. In order to clarify the distinguished factor of aged drivers, this report is based on the assumption that aged driver characteristics are related to their living areas, in particular driving situations. The driver characteristics investigated from experiments using by driving simulator enabled to simulate some driving situations, and actual driving test. The result is that some aged drivers' drivng peformances are affected by driving situations, but others are not affected. So, this experiments provides useful suggestions for aged drivers driving education.
