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Mercedes-Benz debuts turquoise exterior lights to indicate the car is self-driving | A visual indicator for other drivers::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This could be useful as a communication medium where the car transmits data through the light to the neighbours.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If only there was some kind of universal communication technology that didn't require line of sight, worked over distances out to say 100m and was reasonably inexpensive to implement...then we wouldn't need to communicate using the modern equivalent of semaphore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

dang, maybe something related with electricity and this crazy magnets we have?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Magnets? How do they work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But what about the IOT? The 5G! Connect all the things!