How self-driving cars will ‘talk’ to pedestrians

It’s hard to communicate with a gesture or nod at a passing car when there’s no one at the wheel.

When it comes to driverless cars, this is a bigger, and potentially more life-threatening, issue than it may seem. Road safety relies on all types of communication between people and vehicles, and most importantly on a psychologist-coined term, “communicating intent.”

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