DRI has specified, designed, constructed and reduced to practice a variety of special purpose test systems, to support our applied research activities. These include:

Automatic Vehicle Controllers: specified, designed, fabricated, installed and used by DRI on a variety of vehicles for handling, maneuvering, stability, and braking tests. This includes AVC's for automobiles, pickup trucks, SUVs, all terrain vehicles, and motorcycles.
Driving Simulators: interactive, driver-in-the-loop, large display driving simulators, useful to support vehicle and component development, and for studies of driver behavior and the effect of roadway parameters. These include a research grade moving-base driving simulator and a fixed-base driving simulator. The DRI Moving Base Driving Simulator is one of only a few in the world in its class.
Guided Soft Target: a complete system for evaluation of Advanced Crash Avoidance Technologies (ACATs).  This Guided Soft Target (GST) system includes an autonomously guided, self-propelled soft car target that can act as a realistically moving collision partner while maintaining test personnel safety and avoiding damage to expensive test vehicles.  The GST system is appropriate for the evaluation of virtually any type of collision warning or avoidance system such as Forward Collision Warning (FCW), crash avoidance braking systems, and head-on collision avoidance systems.  The GST is able to recreate virtually any type of collision scenario in a repeatable way, and can operate at speeds up to 45 mph.
Impact Test Lab: including 6 meter monorail helmet impactor for helmet R&D, quality control, or accident reconstruction studies; guided drop assembly capable of measuring both linear and angular head accelerations; Part 572 head-neck pendulum; 6 meter twin rail drop impactor; and other pendulums and impactors. Extensive instrumentation and data acquisition capabilities, high speed camera, data reduction, analysis and documentation support.
Mobile Tire Tester: an over-the-road test system used to measure tire forces and moments (in 6 degrees of freedom) under realistic operating conditions of vertical load, slip angle, camber angle, and slip ratio.
Proving Ground Measurement Device:a pickup truck - trailer combination that can make pavement friction measurements using either a braked tire at zero lateral slip angle, or a free rolling tire at a fixed lateral slip angle.
Specialized Crash Test Dummies: various Hybrid and ISO dummy configurations, with internal data acquisition for special studies, some with breakable instrumented bones and other enhanced biofidelity features.