Self-Driving Cars Aiming To Change Our Most Favorite Of Car Colors

Self-Driving Cars Aiming To Change Our Most Favorite Of Car Colors

Exploring how car painted color preferences will change once there are self-driving cars.



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What color is your car?

I'm sure that you've made a perfect choice for your car.

Go with me on a thought experiment about car colors, if you are willing to entertain some outsized thinking on this topic. There are about 285 million cars in the United States, which is a whole lot of cars, and imagine if they were all painted the same color.

Besides being a somewhat drab approach to life for us all, you would undoubtedly find it very hard to readily discover your own car while walking through a crowded parking lot. Envision row after row of cars that are the same identical color (on a related topic, see my analysis of the qualms about all future cars potentially looking alike, see the link here).



Even if the color was bright and eye-catching, let's say a sparkling red, keep in mind that we are assuming for the moment that every car is that same color (i.e., all are red). In that sense, the seemingly look-at-me red color does nothing to make any particular