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submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

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[-] ULS@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

Watch this turn into a status thing that starts trending.

[-] Epzillon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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.world 1 points 10 months ago

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.world 1 points 10 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.

[-] danque@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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.world 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

"I have the turquoise checkmark light on my car, and you don't."

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