2024 EQS will offer Drive Pilot
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2024 EQS will offer Drive Pilot
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a4...mous-us-debut/
The 2024 Model Year S and EQS will debut the option for drivepilot, which will work initially on certain highways in Nevada. The 2024 S and EQS will hopefully begin US sales in third quarter of this year
The 2024 Model Year S and EQS will debut the option for drivepilot, which will work initially on certain highways in Nevada. The 2024 S and EQS will hopefully begin US sales in third quarter of this year
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Would be interesting to know if Mercedes plans to offer Drive Pilot to all buyers or only to states where it has been approved. I would suspect people wouldn’t buy it if they couldn’t use it, but some will purchase it no matter what.
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It would make more sense to offer it to everyone (at least in the US) but geolock the feature - so that it works only in states (or areas) where it has been approved. (Drivers from other states - especially California - frequently end up driving in Nevada.)
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The feature needs very expensive hardware, not only expensive SW (discussed many times, see e.g. post by superswiss). Would not make sense to have it pre-installed on all cars.
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Tom Voelk in his Driven car review said that the 2022 has the hardware on it for Level 3 autonomous, but it is not turned on. Can anyone verify if this is true? I think he was mistaken, but it makes me wonder if our 2022 might have this feature someday.
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