The "take control" of "take control of the vehicle immediately." has a defined sequence of steps of "1. Keep your eyes on the roadway and gather your bearings.

The "take control" of "take control of the vehicle immediately." has a defined sequence of steps of "1. Keep your eyes on the roadway and gather your bearings. 2. Put your hands on the steering wheel. 3. Steer, brake or accelerate as needed, or press one of the two buttons." Only after this sequence is completed is drive pilot disabled: "The message DRIVE PILOT Off appears on the driver display." It strains credulity to me that MB would try to argue that "gathering your bearings" is something that a user could be expected to do instantaneously, but either way its not really necessary to speculate. California regs require that the system satisfy SAE L3 which states "At Level 3, an ADS is capable of continuing to perform the DDT (Dynamic Driving Task) for at least several seconds after providing the fallback-ready user with a request to intervene." There is an exception which is what MB is referencing here: "Take over control of the vehicle if irregularities are detected aside from the dynamic driving task." from J3016: "For Level 3 ADS features, a human fallback-ready user (in-vehicle or remote) is expected to respond to a request to intervene or a kinesthetically apparent vehicle failure". Basically the ADS system is not required to maintain control for a handoff for non-ADS related failures along the lines of a tire blowout or a tie-rod failure. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/j3016/index.html https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/j3016/index.html https://wiki.unece.org/download/attachments/128418539/SAE%20J3016_202104.pdf https://wiki.unece.org/download/attachments/128418539/SAE%20...