Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road
Mercedes is the first automaker to sell level 3 autonomous cars to U.S. consumers, after announcing plans to do so last year.
Suck it, Tesla
Drivers can activate Mercedes’s technology, called Drive Pilot, when certain conditions are met, including in heavy traffic jams, during the daytime, on specific California and Nevada freeways, and when the car is traveling less than 40 mph. Drivers can focus on other activities until the vehicle alerts them to resume control. The technology does not work on roads that haven’t been pre-approved by Mercedes, including on freeways in other states.
This system operates completely differently than Tesla and will be accordingly limited. Tesla is designing their system to be able to drive anywhere, not just select roads in limited conditions.
Waymo is probably the most likely to reach widescale level 5 autonomy first, assuming Google doesn't kill it.
This system operates completely differently than Tesla and will be accordingly limited. Tesla is designing their system to be able to drive anywhere, not just select roads in limited conditions.
You’re getting this wrong. Tesla is simply lying to customers and risks their life to sell them an unproven system which at this point is known to have killed people. I bet Mercedes implementation is way better (probably because radar and lidar) but they still do not gamble your life on barely maturing technology just to sell more cars. By limiting the system they know what the risks are and are relatively certain about its performance. In other words they’ve done the testing, so you with your passengers don’t have to.
They aren’t required to signal either
While I always dreamed of something like this as a youngin, we need rails.
Ye train passengers have literally never been required to watch the road