Turquoise lights on the outside mean the Mercedes is driving itself

The hip color for 2024 — at Mercedes-Benz, at least — is turquoise.

Turquoise is, in fact, more that just a cool shade of blue-green in the Germans’ palate: Turquoise colored marker lights in the brand’s EQS sedan and S-class will indicate that the cars are moving autonomously.

This will occur in California and Nevada. Those states are the first in the U.S. to approve Mercedes’s SAE Level 3 self-driving system technology, dubbed Drive Pilot, for use on public roads.