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Turquoise taillights tell you this Mercedes is driving autonomously::California and Nevada have approved a test of the new light color.

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[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why does knowing that it's driving autonomously help the driver behind them?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

If they are going slower than you'd like. Not taking the merge space you're giving them. Slowing down for a reason you can't see. Just sort of generally knowing that the car ahead of you might not drive like a real person.

That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are dozens of good reasons if I put some thought into it.

[–] abhibeckert -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm confused. Have you seriously never encountered a human driver who goes slower than you'd like or doesn't merge into a space? Sometimes they don't even know the blinkers are on, or indicate left then swerve suddenly hard right.

For me, especially as a motorbike rider, the Turquoise indicator would give me confidence that the car isn't going to do something monumentally stupid and get me killed.

Just yesterday I pulled into an exit lane and the car that (was) in front of me suddenly swerved hard into into my lane to cut me off and stop me from illegally overtaking them. Luckily I hadn't overtaken then, even though they were driving well under the speed limit (even the exit lane had a higher speed limit than what they were doing). At the end of the exit lane they swerved back into their lane and nearly hit someone who had accelerated back up to the speed limit once the idiot slow driver had moved out of their way. Human drivers are far less predictable than robot ones.

[–] stevehobbes 11 points 1 year ago

Found the person who doesn’t own a Tesla.

My Tesla did monumentally stupid things on the regular on autopilot. Like phantom braking. It would slam on the brakes while doing 65 on the highway because of shadows. You’d be flying over my hood in your bike.

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