DriveSafety was founded in 1995. Originally, founded as Hyperion (Ft. Collins, CO), it merged with a Utah company and formed KQ Corporation, later renamed GlobalSim. In 2002, this Utah-based organization split into two entities: GlobalSim, focusing on crane-based simulation and military applications, and DriveSafety, focusing on automobile driving simulation, driving research, driver rehabilitation and driving fitness.
DriveSafety is one of the largest providers of advanced research-based driver training solutions available in the world. The DriveSafety simulators are state-of-art, high fidelity driving environments that have been adopted by leading research universities, private labs, automobile companies, governmental organization, hospitals, medical clinics, rehabilitation centers and health care facilities worldwide. They include Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Nissan, Motorola, Johnson Controls, Delphi Automotive, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
DriveSafety’s simulation systems are used to conduct research in automotive and roadway design, traffic control and safety measures, human-machine interaction, and many characteristics of drivers themselves, such as perception, judgment, and response to different traffic situations and other issues of driver choice and behavior. The simulators allow experts to use consistent and repeatable driving experiences to study many different drivers.