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Weekly BriefingSaturday, October 24, 2026

This week's lead

Feds want robotaxis to signal ‘I’m driving’ with

The Verge · Oct 23, 2026

How should driverless cars tell the world no one is at the wheel?

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From the editor

Regulators want cars to use cyan lights to signal "self-driving active". It sounds like a great service to first responders, police, and emergency vehicles, but how will regular human drivers respond to the signal? Will they respect AVs' right of way or exploit AVs' inclination toward caution? (No human ego will be cut here...) As always, nothing is as easy as it might seem.

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Lesson of the week

The DARPA Grand Challenge: the big bang of self-driving

Zooming out to a wider angle is a good practice in any domain. We find the DARPA challenges to be a great context for the historical perspective

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