Context Research

There are many research already exist. 

Nissan Research on autonomous cars is trying to complete human side of autonomous cars, so to study how vehicles could interact with human and learn from human behaviors.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETHZ), and the Italian National Research Council (CNR) have developed slot-based intersections that could replace traditional traffic lights, significantly reducing queues and delays. This is a research directly based on the developing technology, no human involved.    

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and Ford are working together to use self-driving vehicle using a "seat suit" to conceal the human driver to explore pedestrian reaction to external lighting signals that indicate when the vehicle is driving, yielding or accelerating from a stop. This is a still a passive way to engage with the public's feeling of autonomous vehicle.