Turquoise lights on the surface imply the Mercedes is driving itself

The hip colour for 2024 — at Mercedes-Benz, at the very least — is turquoise.

Turquoise is, in reality, extra that only a cool shade of blue-green within the Germans’ palate: Turquoise coloured marker lights within the model’s EQS sedan and S-class will point out that the vehicles are transferring autonomously.

This may happen in California and Nevada. These states are the primary within the U.S. to approve Mercedes’s SAE Stage 3 self-driving system know-how, dubbed Drive Pilot, to be used on public roads. 

This system, working as a take a look at for 2 years, will debut in California with collection manufacturing fashions of the 2026 EQS sedan and S-class. On the California take a look at automobiles, the turquoise markers will seem within the vehicles’ headlights, taillights, and on their facet mirrors. Mercedes hopes to finally “standardize” the turquoise indicators in automobiles globally.

Moreover choosing the distinctive look, Mercedes stated that it selected turquoise for its visibility and distinctiveness from the colours used for site visitors indicators and conventional automobile lighting. They’ll even be used to sign to different street customers — and to police — that the corporate’s SAE Stage 3 autonomous-driving system is energetic.

With Drive Pilot in use by early subsequent yr, Mercedes says, drivers will have the ability to take their arms off the wheel and carry out “secondary actions” on the automobile’s infotainment show, akin to sorting emails and on-line procuring. Usable at speeds as much as 40mph, Mercedes says that if any system fails there are braking and steering fail-safes to soundly keep management of the automobile till the driving force regains management.