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by Klathmon 3507 days ago
And a horse could do it centuries before that, but that's not a fair comparison either.

The car in that video had so much extra custom stuff it's not even funny. And while it's still a technical feat, I don't see every mercedes being sold with that equipment in it already.

The reason this is amazing is because Tesla is planning on switching this on for all of their new cars in the very near future. It might not be the most technically advanced, but it's here.
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Reason077 3507 days ago
It's just like how Mercedes (and others) have shown some fantastic "Tesla killer" electric vehicle concepts. That's nice, but it's not really something that competes with Tesla until it's available to buy.

While the others make promises, Tesla's making cars.

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PinguTS 3507 days ago
The equipment is available in the current S-Class and the most current E-Class, when we talk about the sensors and the actuators. It is different with actual ECU who does the computing stuff.

BTW I doubt that the Tesla is ASIL D complient in this sense. AFAIK their is no ASIL D implemented component right now. Everybody avoids that. But this is required to be fail safe.

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revelation 3507 days ago
Where is all that extra custom stuff? Because the car looks perfectly normal, no Google-esque radar dome on top.
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