Self Driving Cars
| With its S 500 INTELLIGENT DRIVE research vehicle, Mercedes-Benz became the world's first automobile manufacturer (that is if Google doesn't start making cars) to demonstrate that autonomous driving in rural and urban traffic is possible. |
Mercedes-Benz has successfully completed the first autonomous cross country and inner city drive, using near-production-standard sensor systems.
The Mercedes-Benz S 500 INTELLIGENT DRIVE research vehicle covered 100 Kilometer from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany, under real traffic conditions and complex situations including traffic lights, roundabouts, pedestrians, cyclists and trams.
Mercedes-Benz revealed the full details of the first autonomous long distance drive at the Mercedes-Benz Media Night, last week at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show.
While other companies have shown self driving cars either on closed roads or using complex technologies, Mercedes-Benz achieved this goal with the aid of near-production-standard technologies, very similar to those already available in the new E and S-Class.
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For Mercedes-Benz the autonomously driving car is not the attempt to ban the driver from the driver seat. While self driving cars will be a reality of future mobility, it is first and foremost the next logical step on the way to accident free driving.
Since the beginning of the 1980s, Mercedes-Benz has presented 14 research vehicles - from the Auto 2000 of 1981 through to the F 125! of 2011. Many of the systems presented in these research vehicles, which were still considered a utopian ideal in those days, are now standard features in Mercedes-Benz production cars.
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