this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
203 points (98.6% liked)

Technology

64830 readers
7154 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
enu
technopagan
L4s
203
Turquoise taillights tell you this Mercedes is driving autonomously (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] bfg9k 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why not a colour that isn't already on emergency vehicles? Why not green or purple, something that is clearly distinguishable?

[–] Jilanico 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Red and green are hard to distinguish by many color blind people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As are blue/purple.

[–] topinambour_rex 4 points 1 year ago

It was approved by the states where it is legal, aka california and nevada.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My buddy had a car with green and purple lights but was a restored hearse - like the Ghostbusters car - and it was fucking fabulous.