China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Equipment Industry Department I released on Oct. 20 a draft standard on the installation of exterior lighting and light-signaling devices, which would bar vehicles without L3 or higher automated driving systems from being fitted with ADS marker lights, cnBeta reported. The draft assigns the lights a dedicated blue-green color, requires all ADS marker lights to switch on automatically and stay on while L3+ automation is active, bans manual switching, and prohibits lighting them at L2 or below. It also proposes banning text or projected displays from lamp surfaces apart from luminous emblem units and emoji-like faces, with a suggested effective date of Jan. 1, 2028 and transition periods of up to 49 months for certain clauses.