“Ghost driver” study tests visual prompts for autonomous vehicle comms
With autonomous vehicles already rolling on public roads, researchers from the University of Nottingham in the UK have used a camouflaged driver to look at how pedestrians react to visual cues from oncoming cars without a human at the wheel.Folks trying to cross the road as the group's Nissan Leaf test car approaches may be forgiven for believing that it was a fully autonomous vehicle, as the human driver wore clothing designed to look like a car seat, including full head gear resembling a headrest, while enabling the…