Turquoise taillights tell you this Mercedes is driving autonomously::California and Nevada have approved a test of the new light color.
I wish they had this for my adaptive cruise control so people in front of me would know that’s as fast as I’m going
Or people behind know you’re not jamming on the breaks when someone is or has already turned, it’s just the car doing it…
Kinda wish we’d just leave blue (or off-variants like turquoise) lights for emergency vehicles only.
I like the idea of an indicator, just not the execution.
They legally can’t be blue which is why they chose turquoise.
Depends on the state. You must live in one of the relatively sane ones.
I live in Oklahoma, where it’s either legal or not enforced. Tow trucks, construction vehicles, you name it. Blue lights everywhere. And not turquoise or some other “technically not blue” loophole color, but like “they bought their overhead lights from a cop car manufacturer and stuck it on their roof as is” solid fucking blue.
I hate it.
I’ve been asking why cars don’t have more obvious visual indicators since I was like 8 years old.
It’s pretty weird that we’re basically just working with 2 sets of lights and blinkers at this point.
For AV’s specifically, a pretty significant/obvious missed feature is some indicator that the car “sees” you. Pedestrians make eye contact with drivers to check if crossing is safe. How is there no equivalent for AV’s??? It’s such an obvious miss.
On a similar theme, every time I get caught in stop and go traffic I wish we had tail lights that indicated letting off the gas. Like an orange light to say, “I’m no longer accelerating but I haven’t applied the brake yet.” I feel like everyone could coordinate traffic flow better with a little extra information, but I fear (much like these turquoise lights and adaptive cruise control) assholes will just game the system anyway to ruin everything.
Especially with a lot of new EVs on the road that use regenerative breaking if your foot is off the gas.
Why not a colour that isn’t already on emergency vehicles? Why not green or purple, something that is clearly distinguishable?
Red and green are hard to distinguish by many color blind people.
It was approved by the states where it is legal, aka california and nevada.
Oh boy, now when I get hit as a pedestrian I’ll know it was the car and not the rich person!
I feel this is just painting a target on self driving cars for luddites.
If the autopilot without turquoise lights does something dumb, the driver is just another idiot, oh well. If the autopilot with turquoise lights does something dumb, all self driving cars are the devil.
Don’t know why you’re downvoted. This is an honest possibility. They already coalroll cyclists and Priuses.
Would light placement be better like… Idk… Lit up license places, or wheel wells, or something? I guess not because some states already allow that stuff…
Blue bubbles
I could understand why this would be helpful on the front of a car, but I don’t understand why this would be helpful on the back of a car.
Look at the pictures in the article. They’re in the front too.
