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Just testing on customers would be bad enough.  The bigger problem is they're testing on the rest of us who didn't sign up for it.
Also its not just hindsight, foresight said they were insane and unsafe.  When every other manufacturer that's claiming to be attempting self-driving is using more sensors than just cameras, and you continue to insist to only use cameras, its not just hindsight saying you're wrong.
I'm not a fan of luxury cars, but I've always appreciated how the S-class has always shown us what things will be like across all brands in less than 10 years. >

I have a Kia EV-6, which has Level 2 Self-Driving, and that is already pretty fucking amazing.  I might need to go to a Mercedes dealership and see if I can get a test drive of this S-class to see how cool the new technology is. >

I believe Genesis will have level 3 this year as well and hyundai has been testing level 4 on public roads in Korea for about a year now.  We bought a car this year, so probably won't be buying another for 10 years or so. It's going to be so different when that happens. >

Yeah... the difference between what cars were ten years ago, versus five years ago, and now today has been an amazingly fast set of advancements.  By 2030 the technology is going to be amazing. >

What about in 2050? >

I want my fucking flying car by then. >

Which part do you want more? The fucking or the flying? >

By 2050 I may be too old to do one of those safely, so definitely the other. >

Elon is gonna be pissed. >

Mercedes banned from Twitter. >

You joke, but Twitter has actually banned and shadow banned people for being critical of Tesla of posting videos of them malfunctioning >

No freedoms for them! >

This is a big blow to Tesla, I mean obviously it's only limited to Nevada but still this headline will shake market confidence alongside all the headlines of the past year shaking confidence, don't think I ever saw the world turn on a man so fast, it was not so long ago pro-Elon headlines were all over Reddit, then right around the time the Chinese beef started was when the narrative began to really changed. >

It was always going to be the case.
Self driving will be ratified through the EU with a standardized system which will go global due their markets. It needs to be that way as companies don't test their self driving against each other, it'd be impossible to do. For safety and investment sake, it'll be standard.
Mercedes has been working on the train track problem (do you pull the lever to save the group of children and kill an adult) for decades now. I think the system will come out of them primarily.
Tesla will be no where near it and it's choice of tech (cameras) just can't work for full auto driving. >


Mercedes has been working on the train track problem

Ngl I wonder if the precedent here is gunna have a knock on effect about our morality regarding sacrifice. It’s one thing to think about a many vs one situation, another to make a decision in the moment and something else entirely to know when buying “the car I own will kill me if it needs to in order to save lives”.
It’s society adopting a definitive position on the trolly problem. >

It’s hard to imagine the suicidal resolution. What would that even look like? I guess maybe driving off the road to avoid a pedestrian?
Realistically, the application of that principle is just one extremely narrow subset of the problems of an autonomous vehicle. Most of the time a collision can be avoided simply by stopping or swerving. This kind of issue only comes up when a potential victim behaves in a way that is literally unpredictable- something entering the path of the vehicle too abruptly for the car to stop, while oncoming traffic or a barrier or precipice prevents swerving. Frankly I think it’s disingenuous to even worry about a car’s “ethics” in navigating such a scenario. >

Additionally if it drives off the road to save someone would that not mean people could get in front of your car on purpose to have the AI crash you? Or would the AI be fine with hitting jay walkers? It brings up a lot of weird questions. >

I'm not a Mercedes driver but this is very promising and I'm glad there is progress outside of Tesla.  Hopefully this feature isn't locked behind a subscription. >

I actually believe Benz if they say this. I never believed the autopilot in Tesla cars worked. When it first came out there was a dude killed 32 miles from me because the camera thought the side skirt on a semi was a cloud and it never changed lanes. >

Not an intentional slight against Tesla, but I agree. 
I’m more reassured that Benz would execute on this to a comfortable degree before launch. 
Tesla has a definite “move fast and break things”
mentality that translates to Alpha testing on paying customers systems that, with benefit of hindsight, appear quite incomplete and unsafe.