Ford Disguised a Man As a Car Seat To Research Self-Driving (techcrunch.com)
According to TechCrunch, Ford put a man in a car seat disguise so that a Ford Transit could masquerade as a true self-driving vehicle in order to evaluate how passers-by, other drivers on the road and cyclists reacted to sharing the road with an autonomous vehicle. From the report: The trial, conducted with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, also made use of a light bar mounted on the top of the windshield to provide communication about what the car was doing, including yielding, driving autonomously or accelerating from a full stop. The Transit Connect van used for the trial would indicate its behavior using signals including a slow white pulse for yielding, a rapid blinking for accelerating from a stop, and staying solid if it's actively in self-driving mode. The bar is positioned roughly where a driver's eye line would be, to try to catch the attention of those around it who would look in its direction.
Been done before but the Ford setup is much more convincing.
It's an interesting idea, but the article is awful. How about some preliminary results from the earliest stages of testing? Also, could useful data sets be obtained from Uber's self driving cars? Many of those cars won't actually be empty, but none of the people will be driving.
on how people would react, since it is presently illegal to send out a self driving car onto public roads without a person there ready to take control. If it were legal, people would react differently (like, probably, fewer of them would call the cops).
waaay back in the day, when Ford/Chevy made "talking cars", as in the female (always female) voice "your door is a jar" or ajar or something like that, a new Buick bought by a church-going lady ran off the road after leaving the dealership. she said that "haunts are in my car" (haunts are ghosts). this experiment has a little "haunt" potential, even if it's only distracted drivers calling 911 to report it. and yes, those would be data points.
Equifax disguised a music major as Chief of Security!
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Just let me get my shotgun, a barrel of whiskey, and we can try it again where you surprise me by having a car drive itself down my rural road.
No guarantees it will return, mind you. Don't truck with ghost cars round these here parts.
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This is so insulting. Didn't we all as a society agree that actors in blackface is racist and offensive? Why is putting a man in carface any different?
You think that's funny, I disguised a seat as a man and drove the car autonomously anyway.
so that means they care more about football than academics.
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I think I saw this trick done in the Knight Rider TV series from the 1980s
I specifically remember one scene in an early episode where KITT drove itself and came to a park. You can barely make out the hands on the steering wheel before they quickly pulled themselves away - but it wasn't edited out ;)
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Isn't it illegal to drive on public roads wearing masks or other things that obscure the drivers field of view? (if not, it should be...)
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She would also be putting makeup and texting.
lucm, indeed.
would have been way better if they had included a baby mannequin.
Just to try to hide a driver. I bet 95% of the drivers this car passes wouldn't even register a driver or a lack thereof.
Not only are most people just plain not that observant, but what's the difference between this and a car with darkly tinted windows? I can't see the driver of that car, either.
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There was study done by the US Navy or Air Force in the 80's to see what kind of voice would work best for warning fighter pilots of various things. Higher pitched voices cut through cockpit noise and other distractions better than others, so they used women to record the warning signals.
I think the overall theme is that higher pitched voices cut through noise floor better than lower pitched voices.
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The VW trailer assist video was pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They did this on Street Outlaws. Farmtruck and AZN bought a Hearse and hollowed out the seats so it looked like no one was driving. They got pulled over by Okla. City cops who had no sense of humor at all.
Chaos maximizes locally around me.
Back in the 1980s Austrian television channel ORF1 showed a TV show about a guy with a talking car solving crimes. It was called "Knight Rider".
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Also note the size of that huge thumb on the left side.
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Somebody noticed this and filmed it.
So their future truly-self-driving cars will cause accidents by causing seizures in the epileptic drivers around them.
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Been done before but the Ford setup is much more convincing.
Don't know about that. Toyota's was pretty good.