So how does this compare with Tesla? Is what I’d want to know. These levels maybe ok for engineers . Consumers like me watch YouTube videos to tell how good a car is at self driving
Tesla doesn't have anything that's eyes off yet. You need to monitor the road. Tesla seems to be going for breadth first (FSD beta working everywhere and doing every manouver) and not depth (autonomy only for highway without changing lanes but reliable enough for eyes off)
It's most likely also much easier to make a car drive autonomously on highways versus on smaller roads, city roads, dirt roads etc.
They're promising 10 seconds of warning when the car wants you to take over.
"Warning, take the wheel! Death imminent" takes a good 6 seconds to say :P
Just "Warning, take the wheel!" gives you time to pause between each repetition and still say it 5 times.
I’d be surprised if that wasn’t the case in Germany, independent of any decision Mercedes would make beyond the one to make and sell the car.
Mercedes appears to be indemnifying drivers when its tech is engaged. That's frankly the bigger first for me than SAE Level 3.
Didn't Ford do a similar thing with their explorer? They knew about a roll over issue but decided that it was finacilly cheaper to pay the lawsuits than recall the vehicle.
Sure hope it was! Point is they're putting their money where their mouth is. That's new.
Yes, the standard requires that the driver be given "a few seconds" to resume before the system disengages, but things can change dramatically in a few seconds at highway speeds.
> things can change dramatically in a few seconds at highway speeds
In the immediate term, "brake enough not to hit things" is a very good default response and a computer should be better than a human at doing so.
Really?
Tesla has done exactly that - refusing liability because autopilot returned control to the driver in less than a second before the crash.[0]
No one called them out on it. There was a lot of hand wringing and feigned outrage but Musk's ass needs to be kissed and it ain't gonna kiss itself.
[0](https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2022/05/18/nhtsa...)
On a page of statistics they put together, they said "we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact", and that seems sufficient for a level 2 system.
Not good enough to take a nap but good enough to be texting or reading.