Article 2YP3Y 'Self-driving car' actually controlled by man dressed up as a car seat

'Self-driving car' actually controlled by man dressed up as a car seat

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Virginia residents and tech blogs alike fooled by university 'research project' featuring a driver pretending to be part of autonomous vehicle

Tech blogs went crazy over the weekend after a new self-driving car was seen rolling around Arlington, Virginia.

Unlike vehicles from Google Waymo, Uber and others, the car didn't have any obvious signs of a Lidar array, the chunky imaging technology most autonomous vehicles use to gauge the state of the road ahead. Instead, it had just a small bar mounted on the dashboard, which blinked red when it was at a stop light and green once the cost was clear.

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