Abstract: The problem of application of the driver model in the vehicle tire blow-out simulation and the changes of the vehicle response behavior after the tire blow-out were analyzed, and it was found that vehicle response changes after the tire blow-out are the main cause leading to the problem that the driver model can not drive the vehicle back to the original trajectory. A new driver model considering the fact that the vehicle is characterized by unsymmetric leftward and rightward turning after the tire blow-out was built and its simulation was performed. A vehicle state reference module was embedded in the original driver model and its parameters were identified under different driving speeds. Thus the problem of application of the driver model in the vehicle tire blow-out was solved, providing a reference for the study of driver operation behavior and stability control of the vehicle after tire blow-out.

Key words: vehicle engineering, tire blow-out, driver model, state reference module, passive safety