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Mercedes? Pick an easier competition? As much as European cars have a favorable reputation among American consumers: They are awful! If you do benchmarking, y

Mercedes? Pick an easier competition? As much as European cars have a favorable reputation among American consumers: They are awful! If you do benchmarking, you are going to find European cars have lots of appearance parts that are high quality, but the actual components are poor. A more realistic comparison would be to compare Tesla vs Ford or GM. These are 3 companies that have similar tech/culture standards. This video is like comparing AMD to Apple.

tentacleuno 2y ago
> This video is like comparing AMD to Apple. What do you mean by this?
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ethagknight 2y ago
Had you watched the video before commenting, you would know the point of the video is that Consumer Reports gave Mercedes self driving a much higher rating than Tesla. Video shows how awful the Mercedes software really is
- jfoster 2y ago
  Consumer Reports must have done similar tests to what is seen in the video (eg. just driving with these systems), yet they came out with the result that they did. What happened there?
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  - daghamm 2y ago
    Simple: The video is comparing apples to oranges. They are comparing self driving to driver assistance.
  - input_sh 2y ago
    One of those sources isn't fairly well-known for being obsessed with Teslas (or anything Musk-related really), the other one is.
- alphabettsy 2y ago
  It seems the video is comparing a different Mercedes driver assist system to FSD?
LordOfWolves 2y ago
Mercedes is the first company to sell vehicles with SAE Level 3 Autonomous Driving enabled in the United States [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098468
wrboyce 2y ago
Nice cherry picking, I occasionally see a (ridiculously oversized) Chevrolet (Corvettes I think) on the road here in Britain and the build quality is utter shite, not to mention how fugly they are but I suppose that is subjective. How many McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, etc equivalents does America produce? Beyond most of those examples there is good reason “German Engineering” is an oft-repeated phrase. See, I can cherry pick too (Europe also produce Fiats, lol, “fix it again tomorrow”). EDIT: and tbh I don’t even agree with your cherry picked example either, every Tesla I’ve been in has had terrible build quality and been a horrible ride.
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tentacleuno 2y ago

> This video is like comparing AMD to Apple. What do you mean by this?

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ethagknight 2y ago

Had you watched the video before commenting, you would know the point of the video is that Consumer Reports gave Mercedes self driving a much higher rating than Tesla. Video shows how awful the Mercedes software really is

jfoster 2y ago
Consumer Reports must have done similar tests to what is seen in the video (eg. just driving with these systems), yet they came out with the result that they did. What happened there?
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- daghamm 2y ago
  Simple: The video is comparing apples to oranges. They are comparing self driving to driver assistance.
- input_sh 2y ago
  One of those sources isn't fairly well-known for being obsessed with Teslas (or anything Musk-related really), the other one is.
alphabettsy 2y ago
It seems the video is comparing a different Mercedes driver assist system to FSD?

LordOfWolves 2y ago

Mercedes is the first company to sell vehicles with SAE Level 3 Autonomous Driving enabled in the United States [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098468

wrboyce 2y ago

Nice cherry picking, I occasionally see a (ridiculously oversized) Chevrolet (Corvettes I think) on the road here in Britain and the build quality is utter shite, not to mention how fugly they are but I suppose that is subjective. How many McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, etc equivalents does America produce? Beyond most of those examples there is good reason “German Engineering” is an oft-repeated phrase. See, I can cherry pick too (Europe also produce Fiats, lol, “fix it again tomorrow”). EDIT: and tbh I don’t even agree with your cherry picked example either, every Tesla I’ve been in has had terrible build quality and been a horrible ride.

resource_waste 2y ago
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