[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-nhtsa-proposes-cyan-marker-lamps-to-mark-driverless-cars":10,"sections":54},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":42,"persona_id":42,"persona_name":42,"section":43,"tags":44,"sources":49,"feedback":53,"feedback_at":42,"cost_usd":53,"total_tokens":53},12307,"nhtsa-proposes-cyan-marker-lamps-to-mark-driverless-cars","NHTSA Proposes Cyan Marker Lamps to Mark Driverless Cars","NHTSA's proposed rewrite of its lighting standard picks cyan marker lamps to flag driverless cars and trims rules written for human drivers.","The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants driverless cars to announce themselves with a specific color: cyan, a blue-green.\n\nThe agency released proposed changes to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 108, the federal rule that governs vehicle lighting, rewriting it to fit autonomous vehicles. The proposal does two things. It cuts red tape for designs with no human driver, and it standardizes how robotaxis communicate with the people around them. Cyan-colored marker lamps are the first piece. The agency said the lamps are meant to signal clearly and consistently to law enforcement, and the broader aim is a common way for these vehicles to say no one is at the wheel.\n\nThat ends a long-running argument. Companies and regulators have floated flashing text, audio alerts and custom lights, and each approach would have left a pedestrian or police officer decoding a different signal on every brand of car. A single federal color replaces that guesswork with a rule.\n\nCyan is also a sensible pick on its face. Road vehicles already use white, red and amber for headlights, brake lights and turn signals, and emergency vehicles lean on red and blue. A blue-green lamp sits apart from all of those, though how distinct it looks in daylight, rain or fog is a question the rulemaking will have to answer.\n\nThe other half of the proposal may matter as much to manufacturers. FMVSS 108 was written around cars with drivers, so rewriting it to remove requirements that assume one is a precondition for building vehicles with no human-operated controls. This is a proposal, not a final rule, and the lighting details can still change before it takes effect.","[\"robotaxis\",\"nhtsa\",\"autonomous-vehicles\",\"regulation\"]","2026-10-23T15:24:45.000Z","2026-10-23T18:11:06.403Z","2026-11-08T00:08:44.119Z","published","The draft is still built on a truncated Verge excerpt with no concrete specifics (comment deadline, which vehicles or lamps are covered, what NHTSA actually says the cyan lamps signal and to whom), and it overclaims by saying the proposal 'ends a long-running argument' and that a federal color 'replaces that guesswork with a rule' while later admitting it is only a proposal and can change; add sourced details or cut those claims, and drop unsupported asides such as the 'emergency vehicles lean o",[24,30,35,39],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The draft was written from a truncated source: the agency quote cuts off at 'signal to law e…', yet the draft states that NHTSA said the lamps signal 'that no one is driving', which the source does not support. Remove or properly sourced that attribution, tone down the dek's 'would settle years of debate' since this is only a proposal, and add concrete specifics (comment period, which vehicles or lamps are covered, dates) or cut the claims that depend on them.","open",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":34},"editor-r2",2,"The draft removed the unsupported 'no one is driving' attribution and softened the dek, but it still leaks process text into the body ('the quote is cut off in the material we reviewed, so we will not guess' and 'that material also does not give the comment deadline...'), which signals a truncated source and is not reader-facing. 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