[lrei]

I have plenty of experience with Mercedes, Audi, volvo, jeep and BMW cars - driving, renting, test driving them or being the passanger. I would say Mercedes is at least 5 years behind the competition at approx same price point. Disclaimer: I'm obviously not qualified to talk about suspension technology, combustion engines etc. But tech (e.g pilot assist/autopilot), Driver interface features and multimedia, yeah Mercedes is very very very far behind.

[sjwright]

Most car manufacturers are 5-10 years behind in terms of deep technology and software. In recent years a few manufacturers have done a passable job papering over their legacy interfaces with modern designs and faster GPUs, but they're still buggy junk behind the scenes. And if that weren't bad enough, most of it is – from the end user's perspective – abandonware.