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Ghost driver: A platform for investigating interactions between pedestrians and driverless vehicles
  How will pedestrians and cyclists interact with self-driving cars when there is no human driver? To find answers to this question we need a secure experimental design in which pedestrians can interact with a car that appears to drive on its own. In Ghost Driver we staged a fake autonomous car by installing LIDARs, cameras and decals on the outside of the vehicle and by covering the driver with a seat costume so that it appeared that there was no driver in the car. In initial field studies we found that this Wizard-of-Oz technique convinced more than 80% of the participants that the car was driving autonomously without a driver. Consequently the Ghost Driver methodology could become a platform for further investigation of how pedestrians or cyclists interact with driverless vehicles.

  • Date:

    01 September 2015

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • DOI:

    10.1145/2809730.2809755

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

Citation

Rothenbücher, D., Li, J., Sirkin, D. M., Mok, B. K. J., & Ju, W. G. (2015, September). Ghost driver: A platform for investigating interactions between pedestrians and driverless vehicles. Presented at AutomotiveUI '15, Nottingham, UK

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