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Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

There are no immediate plans for the OEMs to sell level 4 cars. They would have to charge you at least ten times as much for it if you compare the hardware of level 3 Mercedes with a Waymo taxi. Level 4 will only be available as taxi service for quite a while.

The article mentions "2030" but that seems incredibly naive to me. They will probably just expand the use cases for Drive Pilot until then: Higher speeds, more street types, night time, more weather conditions, more edge cases like construction zones, etc.