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“Mercedes adds new running lights: blue-turquoise for self-driving”

Totally makes sense. The driving behavior, particularly in stop and go traffic, can change between the driving and the automated systems and the driver behind may become annoyed or try to predict the wrong behavior.

That said, one of the fears a few years ago was that regular drivers would “bully” self-driving vehicles, knowing they would always defer to the safer option. This indicator may actually cause more of that to happen.

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As a buyer, I would definitely only want that feature if I can turn it off in a possible future where everyone is bullying self driving vehicles.

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