Why use the highest visibility available color spectrum available for something as trivial as indicating whether a car is under computer control? Seems like you

Why use the highest visibility available color spectrum available for something as trivial as indicating whether a car is under computer control? Seems like you’d want to use it for something important. Especially as the only remaining color isn’t as good for those with color issues in their eyes. It’s in no way critical to other road users to know. Witness how completely unnecessary for the current generation of level 1 and 2 self-driving technologies. We have no light. Nothing is missing from the driving experience. Other road users do not care. What makes it so critical that people are aware that computer-controlled cruise control is operating? And yes, I think a lot of decisions are made by idiots. Many decisions are made for reasons besides common sense. Logic is just a small contributor to why giant bureaucracies make decisions, and sometimes it doesnt survive the process of becoming a standard. So in general I think it’s incredibly important to question what look like a lack of common sense, even if there is a study. Can’t tell you the number of times the obvious solution that became a standard turned out to be dumb or wrong when it came into contact with the real world. The justification from Mercedes is: > The turquoise lights are needed, according to Mercedes, to alert passing drivers and police that the vehicle is under fully automated control. That way, when someone outside the vehicle sees the driver looking away from the road, they don't think the driver is doing something wrong. This is a truly dumb justification for use of one of the most important spectrum lights remaining for automotive. This is in absolutely no way mission critical or even critically important information to other road users. It’s nonsense and more driven by marketing than substantive need for some innovation to handle a use case that matters in any way. It’s great for cops. They can finally be completely sure of that phone ticket.