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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 9 months ago by MichaelTen to c/cars

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[–] venusaur 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Suck it, Tesla

[+] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] SpaceNoodle 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Tesla can barely manage a working L2 system.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, what Tesla says, and what it has are very different.

I suspect Mercedes is being a bit conservative in there implementation, but ultimately realistic by limiting speeds and locations of the service to start.

They also may be limited by laws and insurance available in those locals.

[–] riodoro1 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

They aren’t required to signal either

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While I always dreamed of something like this as a youngin, we need rails.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ye train passengers have literally never been required to watch the road