The self-driving car is here! Drive Pilot is the first system that allows you to relax and let the vehicle take over, and ABC7's Dave Kunz was the first U.S. journalist to drive it.
Recently, I was in the driver's seat of a 2024 Mercedes EQS, but I wasn't driving - the car was!"The paradigm shift to Level 3 is that you can take your eyes off the road and your hands off the wheel. You're no longer the driver, you're a receptive fallback-ready user," explained Lucas Bolster, an engineer with Mercedes-Benz USA who's been working the brand's autonomous driving technology for the past eight years.
Hands-off-the-wheel is okay, but you still have to watch the road at all times. Ford has a similar system called Blue Cruise, and Tesla offers driving assist, but only at Level 2 right now. Extra technology is obviously built into the car to allow this to work. This includes LiDAR, high-definition GPS with centimeter accuracy, the latest cameras, backup systems for chassis control and electrical circuits - all tied together with lots of processing power.
The system only works when you're on a freeway and going less than 40 miles per hour. But in Southern California, obviously, that's a lot of the time. The system has to analyze exactly where the vehicle is for Drive Pilot to engage.
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