Mercedes continues to work on fully autonomous driving Level 3. His system is called Drive Piloyou debuted as an optional on the S-Class ed EQS ordered and sold in Germany and the United States during 2024.
A few months after the official launch, the House of the Star has announced that starting from the first weeks of 2025 its operating limit will be raised from 60 km/h to 95 km/hwith buyers who already have the system on their cars receiving an OTA update or via a workshop visit.
Specially recertified
According to the company, to allow the increase in the operating speed limit, the Drive Pilot system will be recertified by theGerman Federal Transport Authority by the end of 2024, with the aim of starting first deliveries to customers in 2025.
Despite the update, the price to have this option on a new S-Class will remain the same, starting from 5.950 euro on the German market, a value necessary to equip cars with all the “redundancies” of the on-board and safety systems essential to allow approval with this system on board and, in the future and in the United States, the special external blue lights.
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Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot (2024)
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Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot (2024)
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Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot (2024)
How it works
Thanks to the speed limit change, the company says Drive Pilot will effectively become the world’s fastest level 3 autonomous driving system in a production vehicle. But how does it actually work?
Unlike other assistance systems, which are equipped with cameras, radar and ultrasonic sensors, the new Mercedes-Benz autonomous system is also equipped with a LiDAR, which is essential for perceiving the environment in front of the car in front and for having an even higher computing capacity, even in real time.
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Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot (2024)
A Mercedes equipped with Drive Pilot can already determine its exact position to within a few centimetres today and will be able to do so in the future. HD map extremely detailed and continuously updated, authorizing or not the driver to take his hands off the wheel based on the road he is travelling on.
We currently do not know when and if this system will be available in Italy (law permitting) and at what price.
Source: it.motor1.com
