Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving

Re:Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving by mykeliu on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:19PM (#15241643)

People in the comments are making references to prank videos and film techniques, but this type of research study has also been conducted multiples times in the last few years by institutions such as Stanford [1], UC San Diego [2], Virginia Tech [3], and more.

[1] http://wendyju.com/publications/RO-MAN2016-Rothenbucher.pdf

[2] http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/sd-me-ghost...

[3] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/08/heres-the-rea...

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Re:Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving by tonmoy on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:16PM (#15242169)

I think the article is referring to the VirginiaTech study itself too

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Re:Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving by mykeliu on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:42PM (#15242427)

Curses! Shame on me for commenting before thoroughly reading the article.

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Re:Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving by cs2818 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:05PM (#15242673)

Yep, these studies have been appearing at human-robot interaction conferences for a couple of years now.

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