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Mercedes-Benz debuts turquoise exterior lights to indicate the car is self-driving | A visual indicator for other drivers (www.techspot.com)
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Mercedes-Benz debuts turquoise exterior lights to indicate the car is self-driving | A visual indicator for other drivers::undefined

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[–] Maggoty 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 11 months ago

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.