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Waymo built a virtual driver to study how humans react to surprises on the road
Waymo developed a virtual driver to study human reactions to road surprises. The company created a cognitive model explaining how human drivers make split-second crash-avoidance decisions, detailed in a new research paper published in Nature Communications.
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