Mercedes-Benz debuts turquoise exterior lights to indicate the car is self-driving
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Most street legal vehicles utilize a combination of three colored lights: white for headlights and reverse lights, red for tail and brake lights, and orange for blinkers....

Mercedes-Benz debuts turquoise exterior lights to indicate the car is self-driving | A visual indicator for other drivers::undefined

    • firadin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      10 months ago

      How about we:

      1. Don’t let random customers test it and instead use heavily trained, specialized test drivers
      2. Require permitting and, e.g., an obstacle course before letting a company’s software be randomly updated and thrown on the road?

      Why is there this constant false dichotomy implying that the only way to test self driving cars is a wild west of no regulation?

      And also who said that self driving cars are safer than humans? Tesla’s numbers are all statistical lies (in fact Teslas were recently shown to have the most accidents), Cruise just shutdown in SF because they were a liability, and Waymo is heavily limited in its time/weather/areas for driving.

        • FierySpectre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          The teslas having the most crashes I did see pass by on my news feed too. It doesn’t mean that because teslas have self driving and teslas crash the most that this means the self driving tech is the reason for it though. Correlation does not imply causation.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          You literally just presented that false dichotomy in a previous comment. Don’t try to gaslight us.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Sure. But we’re jumping into the deep end by legally allowing the driver to be exempt from distracted driving laws. There’s a big difference between testing the technology and relying on the technology.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          California, Nevada, and Germany all have laws for it. The article this comment section is based on specifically mentions California and Nevada.