The hip colour for 2024 — at Mercedes-Benz, a minimum of — is turquoise.
Turquoise is, in truth, 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 automobiles are transferring autonomously.
This can happen in California and Nevada. These states are the primary within the U.S. to approve Mercedes’s SAE Degree 3 self-driving system know-how, dubbed Drive Pilot, to be used on public roads.
This system, operating as a check for 2 years, will debut in California with collection manufacturing fashions of the 2026 EQS sedan and S-class. On the California check automobiles, the turquoise markers will seem within the automobiles’ headlights, taillights, and on their facet mirrors. Mercedes hopes to finally “standardize” the turquoise alerts 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 alerts and conventional car lighting. They’ll even be used to sign to different street customers — and to police — that the corporate’s SAE Degree 3 autonomous-driving system is energetic.
With Drive Pilot in use by early subsequent yr, Mercedes says, drivers will be capable of take their fingers off the wheel and carry out “secondary activities” on the automotive’s infotainment show, similar to sorting emails and on-line buying. Usable at speeds as much as 40mph, Mercedes says that if any system fails there are braking and steering fail-safes to securely preserve management of the automotive till the driving force regains management.