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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 (fortune.com)
submitted 7 months ago by MichaelTen to c/technology
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[–] cm0002 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's tons of conditions

when certain conditions are met, including in heavy traffic jams, during the daytime, on spec ific 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.

I doubt this is a mistake, they must have really high confidence in the tech as well as with the restrictions, not even Tesla had the balls to announce that you could drive distracted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

not even Tesla had the balls to announce that you could drive distracted.

That's the difference between Level 2 and Level 3 full self driving. Teslas are Level 2.

[–] cm0002 2 points 7 months ago

That's what I'm saying, they could have called this a "Ultra advanced level 2" and avoided opening themselves up to a TON of liabilities. Once you start saying this is a level 3 system and you don't need to pay attention to the road with it, well, that shuts the door to many defenses they could use of it was "just" level 2 if something happens. So that means they must be really confident in their system