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You forgot the best "feature": It allows you to take your hands off the wheel and your eyes off the road. This is significant as it means MB takes on liability
by arlcode 3y ago
You forgot the best "feature": It allows you to take your hands off the wheel and your eyes off the road.
This is significant as it means MB takes on liability and will give you sufficient time (i think 10s in the European version) to take over.
In the world of corporate liability this is huge even if it isn't a technical achievement by itself.
- justapassenger 3y agoOnly people who don’t understand problem domain think it’s not a technical achievement.
- ajross 3y agoI'll give you 2:1 odds that before this reaches market (looks like end of the year for deliveries per the article) Tesla will duplicate the stunt and lift the driver monitoring requirements in similar situations. (Edit: two replies here playing gotcha games with prior FSD announcements. But I'm serious: Tesla can do what this Mercedes does already, essentially perfectly, and has been for the two years I've operated the vehicle. The cost to them of duplicating this stunt is near zero. I'll bet you anything they do it.)
- justapassenger 3y agoThe Tesla, who claimed they’re full self driving next year, for more than half a decade now? Cool, let’s wait. I think it shows how little you understand the problem, to call it a “stunt”.
- noAnswer 3y agoThey claimed in 2018 that in 2019 you will be able to let your Tesla work for you as a Robo-Taxi and make 300.000,- a year. Why would they still wait? Why did Elon Musk wait so long to say the videos showing "him" saying "We will have full self driving in 201x" are deep fakes?
- enragedcacti 3y ago> I'll give you 2:1 odds that before this reaches market (looks like end of the year for deliveries per the article) Tesla will duplicate the stunt and lift the driver monitoring requirements in similar situations. I'll put $100 to the charity of your choice.
- redindian75 3y agoare u saying current tesla CAN"T do this? 40mph with a lead vehicle in daytime on a highway? TODAY, my model3 (on FSD beta) can go 40-80mph, without lead vehicle in night anywhere, AND take turns, watch lights, watch for pedestrians, monitor who came first in stop sign...etc etc... TODAY. Not 2 years from now. where do i signup?
- enragedcacti 3y agoNo, I'm saying Tesla won't sell an L3+ product approved for a CA autonomous vehicle deployment permit before Mercedes does.
- panick21_ 3y agoThere are lots of level 2 systems where you can take your hands of the wheel. That not the definition of level 3.