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Mercedes adds a new car light color: Blue for self-driving (www.cnn.com)
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[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Looks like a different blue, but my understanding is that blue lights are reserved for police.

Edit: it was selected because it's clearly different from the police color.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The article and the autoTLDR comment both say they were approved to use turquoise

[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Approved by who though?

It mentions an organization that has no authority over road laws in any US state, or EU, or anywhere else. So what?

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

The article says Nevada and California, I would assume it's those states respective departments of transportation.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

iT's tUrQuOiSe

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Blue is for priority vehicles, not just police.

[–] stevehobbes@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends entirely on the state/jurisdiction in the US.

That is surprisingly not a federal law.

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That is surprisingly not a federal law.

I thought it was part of the Vienna convention of 1968. But I just checked and the US aren't a part of it.