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....

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  • Epzillon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 个月前

    As someone living in a country which haven’t seen any self-driving cars I’d just be a lot more cautious/careful if I’d ever get close to anything with those lights.

    • Knocturnal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      9 个月前

      AI with all those sensors prob drives better than many city drivers I interact daily changing lanes and doing parallel parking.

      • danque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 个月前

        And don’t forget the human panic response. One of my primary reasons to only allow ai driving. People that kick on the gas in an emergency situation should not be allowed to drive ever, unless hitting the gas was the right choice of course. But seeing people not stop but hit the gas in a panic is the worst thing to see happening.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 个月前

          Years ago (maybe 2009ish) my mother got rear ended 4-5 times by the same person at a red light. They hit her, and kept accidentally hitting the gas instead of the brake over and over. It probably happens more often than we think… but there will always be people lying to themselves and others that they are good drivers.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        9 个月前

        California has had several high profile problems with self driving cars. This is going to be a disaster, physically and politically. This is literally just rich people buying a legal defense for hitting pedestrians. There’s going to be outrage the first time it happens and it turns out the driver wasn’t even looking at the road, or was drunk.

        • Knocturnal@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 个月前

          Ofc there are gonna be issues but I kinda asume drunk driver and person who lack observation has lower chance of hitting someone with car that has any kind of assistance. There are prob more times driving assistance helped than caused problem.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            9 个月前

            Sure, but that shouldn’t absolve them of responsibility. They should still be required to pay attention and apply the brakes or take control if required. These systems do not have a 100 percent safety record. So to say we don’t need the human as a check anymore is bonkers.