A study testing people’s reactions to self-driving cars used a “ghost driver” to record their reactions.
This work from the University of Nottingham found that pedestrians trusted certain visual cues more than others when deciding whether to cross the road without a driver.
As part of the study, a car was driven around a university campus for several days with the driver, researcher David R. Large, in the driver’s seat.
“We wanted to explore how pedestrians interact with self-driving cars and developed this unique method to explore their responses,” said Mr Large, a senior research fellow in the university’s Human Factors Research Group.
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