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There was a bit of press a few years back when they got approval in Germany, but I’d imagine that Mercedes might be reluctant to bet the farm on this or link it to their public image; self driving cars have not, ah, exactly been an unqualified success thus far, and raising expectations could come back to bite them later.

Considering there are grand total of 65 cars available for sale, it's obvious that the company is still testing the waters. There's no reason to do a massive PR push until they are ready and can scale production.

Those 65 cars could easily be >10% of all new S classes available on dealer lots in the two states, the majority of customers order custom made or order special chauffer variants.

Agreed, as I’m familiar as a buyer and with friends who work at MBUSA in dealer inventory.

All things AI related seem to suffer from some kind of collective hedonic adaptation.

I was pretty thrilled to start using ChatGPT as a math tutor, nowadays I'm just "meeh" (while still using it as a math tutor).