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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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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Even if this would be a good idea, you can't just put some non regulated lights on a car. This would need a law change in Germany to be approved and would probably take years of burocrazy until she get beards figured out the exact hue these lights need to emit. But I guess Mercedes already wrote that law for our government to copy. How convenient.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Since it's Mercedes-Benz doing it, they'll just write the new law themselves and tell the German minister of traffic to push it through.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dont understand, does benz have leverage in the german government?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's a bit of a meme because german politics is so heavily lobbied by our car industry.

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