“We had a person in a car seat costume… there would be no person behind the wheel… perceptually there's nothing… that's Wizard of Oz, the fact that there's secretly a person driving the car.”

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Developed the “ghost driver protocol” by placing a person in a car-seat costume to drive an autonomous-looking vehicle with hidden driver, using fake sensors, to study pedestrian reactions

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