A examine to check folks’s reactions to driverless automobiles has used a “ghost driver” to file their responses.
The work, by the College of Nottingham, discovered that, within the absence of somebody within the driving seat, pedestrians belief sure visible prompts greater than others when deciding whether or not to cross the street.
As a part of the examine, a automobile was pushed across the college’s campus over a number of days with its driver – analysis fellow David R. Giant – hid within the driver’s seat.
Mr Giant, senior analysis fellow with the Human Components Analysis Group on the college, stated: “We needed to discover how pedestrians would work together with a driverless automobile and developed this distinctive methodology to discover their reactions.”
Video journalist: Alex Thorp
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