Effects of automobile steering characteristics on driver/vehicle system performance in discrete maneuvers. Paper prepared for the 55th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board TRB, Washington, D.C., January 1976 and presented at the 11th A...

A series of discrete maneuver tasks were used to evaluate the effects of steering gain and directional mode dynamics parameters on driver/ vehicle responses. Results were based on full-scale tests with an experienced test driver evaluating many different dynamic configurations plus 17 ordinary drivers evaluating 6 key configurations.