Was in a car today and there was a Waymo in front which had an LED indicator in the LIDAR array on the roof with a depiction of a walking human and it took me a while to figure out that it meant "I have detected a human walking in front of me" which is presumably an alternative to making eye contact with a driver?
Communicating a vehicle's understanding of its surroundings to those in the surroundings seems like a difficult problem and it feels good to see that actually happening
@mjg59 JLR were experimenting with putting eyes on cars for this!
@mjg59 Hopefully this will gets standardised, like the Mercedes turqoise lights that indicate autonomous driving: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/mercedes-adds-new-light-color-blue-for-self-driving/index.html
@mjg59 I knew someone whose research was on how autonomous vehicles do something like negotiating who goes first with human drivers in an equal-rights situation. Really seems to be very hard stuff! (You can't really always yield, or you risk training a couple of questionable drivers to spot autonomous vehicles from afar and just ignoring their right of way, as they feel confident that the autonomous car always loses in a game of chicken. Which of course is true, because the car won't take risks…