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Mercedes takes biggest swing yet at Tesla as it unveils CLA with 492-mile range

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This seems quite nice. Mercedes is keeping it classy (unlike their Bavarian competitor). Elegant shape, high range... hopefully buttons for important functions?

If only they had a usable boot/trunk/rear hatch. Mercedes has for decades had a hole in their model lineup, no liftback model. I wonder if their owners are less likely to have hobbies where they need to move gear? In general, most cars have gone more rounded and smaller hatches. And thus less usable space. Ie if you want to still fit a guitar sideways, you can't upgrade to a newer model Mercedes C class station wagon. If you want to take the argument to its logical extreme, 90's Volvo of course was the pinnacle and everywhere it's all been downhill from that...

> the vehicle features a premium infotainment system powered by a computer chip that can calculate 254 trillion operations per second

How do you possibly justify putting 254 teraflops(?) to work for an infotainment system? You can display 1080p video with a mere hundredth of that power. It's not so significant in the big scheme of things, but that sounds to me like the operating system could be less than ideal, and that Mercedes are just throwing silicon at the problem in an attempt to compensate.

Hopefully there has just been mix up and that processing power is going towards more gainful activities like automatic lane-keeping.

Came here to post this.

> It’s so potent, it needs liquid cooling like a high-end PC gaming rig.

That must be a mistake. Why would you need liquid cooling for an in car entertainment system? Even a ps5 doesn't need liquid cooling.

Temperatures inside a car can easily reach 140 °F (60 °C), in extreme conditions 80°C.

Even more reason not to have a chip that runs so hot it needs liquid cooling!

The point is that high ambient temperature reduces the amount of heat you can produce before you need heroic efforts at cooling.

That said, this does seem mildly absurd.

It’s an HTML5 supercomputer. All the best modern vehicles have them.

It has a speed of more than 2.

Somebody designed in a GPU chip that is just there rendering UI lol

From a bit of research I think this one is also used for the Level 3 autonomous driving on highways.

Compared to Tesla it is actually usefull and you can do other stuff (e.g. read) and it doesn't just hand over to you one second before collision.

It's for the two games they'll include with your subscription that they support for maybe two years.

"Competing in a niche segment of largely chauffeur-driven executive limousines, the EQS failed to connect with a conservative customer base that still prizes Merc’s combustion engine S-Class sibling as the pinnacle of luxury."

Don't know about the EQS, but on the EQE they made the air suspension an option, resulting in some unpleasantness for the "chauffeur-driven" that find out too late the extra weight of the car can make for a quite unpleasant backseat ride without it on less than perfectly smooth roads.

Well the EQS looks like a bar of soap, unlike their very regal looking S class, so there's that.

Oh, nice to bring back this shape of car - though I can't see if it's oversize like most cars of the last few years, I hope not.

Model 3 competes more with their C class. Shame that they're trying to use their CLA to compete against it.

Yawn. No details, and stated range is not EPA, so it's meaningless.

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