On March 22, local time, according to foreign media insidervs, Mercedes-Benz will launch the L3 level automatic driving system, and promised that when the Mercedes-Benz car driver equipped with Drive Pilot (L3 level automatic driving assistance system) opens the vehicle's advanced driver assistance system, Mercedes-Benz will bear legal responsibility for the operation of the car.
That is to say, as long as the car in which Drive Pilot is active is involved in a car accident, Mercedes-Benz will bear the relevant responsibility. Road & Track specifically added that once the driver turns on the Drive Pilot, the driver can actually pay no attention to the road ahead, play with the phone, or even watch a movie, and Mercedes will take 100% of the responsibility if the car collides.
In fact, in July last year, Shen Hui, founder, chairman and CEO of WM Motor, also made a promise, saying that its L4 driverless car, in the case of no one in the car, the responsibility for the driverless accident is attributed to the main engine factory. Mercedes-Benz is the first car company to bear legal responsibility for the automatic driving system in the case of a driver.
Currently, the Mercedes-Benz system is licensed for use on all motorways in Germany, but is required to be less than 40 mph (about 64 km/h) and can handle the acceleration, steering and braking of the car during use.
It is reported that Mercedes-Benz plans to launch Drive Pilot in parts of the United States by the end of this year. Gregor Kugelmann, Senior Development Manager at Mercedes Drive Pilot, said, "As of the end of last year, we were the first car manufacturer to receive L3 level international certification. Our goal is to achieve L3 level autonomous driving for California and Nevada by the end of this year, and we are also considering other cities. ”
At this time, the initiative to take responsibility will solve the problem of accident liability division in high-end automatic driving, which is expected to help Mercedes-Benz gain an advantage in the field of automatic driving. At the same time, it also reflects Mercedes-Benz's confidence in its own autonomous driving system.
It is understood that Mercedes-Benz also plans to further deepen the research and development of the "automatic valet parking" system, with a view to achieving a fully automatic driverless parking function (L4 level) in the future. It is understood that at present, some of The S-Class cars of Mercedes-Benz have become the first batch of mass production vehicles in Germany to support the pre-installed "automatic valet parking" system, and then the new EQS and new EQE models can also be equipped with this function.