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

nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On that note, can we talk about how shit a lot of reverse lights are? In addition to indicating that you’re backing up, they’re also supposed to function as a sort of rear-facing headlight so you can see what your backing up towards, but their size, placement, and brightness on a lot of cars makes them pretty much useless for that in a lot of cases.

  I’m not saying they need to be as bright as your regular headlights, that would be serious overkill, but they should probably be noticeably brighter than a turquoise self-driving indicator light would ever need to be.

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  • ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Found Alec’s Lemmy account

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  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whacking on the hazard lights can be helpful when reversing, for light.

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  • DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re not supposed to be rear-facing headlights. You don’t even have to have 2 of them (1 is acceptable as long as it’s visible enough). And unlike every other light, there’s no restriction on where it goes. It’s almost like it was an afterthought when they were writing the regulations.

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re not supposed to be rear-facing headlights.

      Blindly backing up in the dark is how you hit/run over things. Back up lights are supposed to provide enough light so you can see where you’re going.

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      • DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, I will concede. I was certain I read a NHTSA interpretation denying this purpose, but the definition in FMVSS specifically states the purpose to “illuminate the road to the rear”.

        But, there’s nothing in the regulation specifying how this is supposed to work (except the brightness of the lamp), and there’s no maximum height for the mounting location like the other lamps.

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe light placement is more important?

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How about next to the brake lights?

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• scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Turquoise is also a shade of blue so I think that may make them illegal in the US since blue lights are only legal on emergency vehicles.

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