NHTSA Wants Robotaxis to Display a Color to Indicate They Are In Driverless Mode
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NHTSA Wants Robotaxis to Display a Color to Indicate They Are In Driverless Mode
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed robotaxis use a color to indicate when they are driving in driverless mode. As companies race to develop and deploy robotaxis, safety concerns continue to abound. Those concerns also play a role in the public’s acceptance of robotaxies, something the NHTSA’s proposal hopes to address. In […]
Feds want robotaxis to signal ‘I’m driving’ with cyan-colored lights
After years of debating how driverless cars should tell the world no one is at the wheel - flashing text, audio alerts, custom lights - the feds just stepped in with a single answer: cyan. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released proposed changes to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 108, specifically rewriting […]
NHTSA proposes allowing cyan marking lights on autonomous vehicles so that authorities and other road users recognize when an automated system is driving. The signal would be optional, but its color, brightness and location would have federal parameters; the proposal would also review lighting requirements designed for cars with human drivers. *** NHTSA proposed changes to the federal standard FMVSS No. 108 and an optional cyan signal to identif…
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