How the 'Human Car Seat' can make self-drving vehicles safer

Ford tests light-based visual language to help autonomous vehicles communicate with pedestrians

The Human Car Seat

The Human Car Seat

Hand gestures, head nods and thumbs-up signals all help to ensure drivers, pedestrians and cyclists know what each other is doing. But how will self driving vehicles, with no human driver, communicate with those around them?

Ford has been testing one approach that uses lights to indicate what the vehicle is doing and what it will do next as part of research into a communication interface that will help autonomous vehicles seamlessly integrate with other road users.

To ensure testing was as...

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