Washington reporters are used to getting stonewalled, so NBC4 Washington transportation reporter Adam Tuss was persistent yesterday when he tried to ask a person hidden inside what looked like a car seat what he was doing driving a “driverless” van around Arlington, Virginia.
Armed with an unforgettable opening line (“I'm with the news, dude”), a determined Tuss failed to get the unknown upholstered driver to respond, but the reporter eventually got an answer about the stunt. It turns out the vehicle is part of a study being conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. This is, improbably enough, real science.
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