It caught a lot of people's attention
Pedestrians in Nottingham have been fooled into seeing a driverless car - while the driver is disguised as a seat. The quirky experiment is described as the first ever UK ‘ghost driver’ study using visual displays to communicate with people crossing roads.
A series of different designs projected onto the eHMI informed pedestrians of the car’s behaviour and intention – including expressive eyes and a face, accompanied by short text-based language such as “I have seen you” or “I am giving way”. The eHMI was controlled by a team member sat in the back seat, while front and rear dash cam footage was collected to observe pedestrians’ reactions in real time.
Several indicators from the dash cam footage were used to evaluate pedestrian’s crossing behaviour, including how long it took people to cross, how long they looked at the car and the number of times they glanced and/or gestured at the vehicle. This, combined with the survey results, gave researchers significant insights into people’s attitudes and behaviour in response to the different eHMI displays, and autonomous vehicles more generally.
David added: “An interesting additional discovery was that pedestrians continued to use hand gestures, for example thanking the car, despite most survey respondents believing the car was genuinely driverless – showing that there is still an expectation of some kind of social element in these types of interaction.”
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