TestnDoc

Don’t see night vision as an option? What’s up with that. Spare tire option?Every S I’ve owned had it.

Wolfman

Some of the discussion has been that several known options are missing. E-active suspension, Magic Sky, some forged wheel options, etc. I suggest to wait a bit for more info...

Streamliner

Gee, it’s not like they haven’t had enough time to get their act together. I would have thought that on something as important as the new S Class, they would have had everything set to go on day one. Oh well.

Wolfman

The launch of the S Class was already delayed by several months. So that would be a NO

Delta5275

Two options i wanted aren’t listed either. Magic sky and night vision. At this point I don’t even no If I’m gonna get the w223. I’m trying to like the dash but I can’t seem to. Also a lot of plastic looking parts all over.

Streamliner

Night vision? Probably just delayed. Spare tire option? You must be joking. We’re not “allowed” to have a spare. MB doesn’t want us to have a spare. It’s almost like “Big Brother” with them. They KNOW what’s best for us. We Americans, living in our huge, expansive country, where I’m sure there are many stretches of hundreds of miles where one could not find even one, single tire that would properly fit a W223, are just silly children in MB’s eyes for even questioning them.

FASTTRIP

Maybe this article explains why no Night Vision, kinda makes sense! but I love my night vision, coolest option.


https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/18/ab...-for-vehicles/

Streamliner

Great article, thanks for posting it.

Germancar1

I mean with all the lighting advancements is this really needed? Always seemed like a useless gimmick to me.

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Sonic Boom

To be honest, the only time I’ve turned it on is when someone hops in and has never seen such a feature before,,, purely for the “wow factor.” A bit gimmicky IMHO unless you plan to go off-road in an S class

C280 Sport

I have it on my W212 E Class. Used it one time and that was it lol.

bkdc

I still want night vision. It warns me of bicyclists, pedestrian, and deer that I never see.

Streamliner

Absolutely! In our neighborhood, we have no sidewalks and no street lights. In addition, we now have THOUSANDS of more people on bikes, many of them electric, that go wizzing right through stop signs, many ridden by young teens, while texting, as they have “NO FEAR!” Let NV save me from hitting one kid, one adult or one dog and it’s worth it. Let it save me from one near miss and it’s worth it.

TestnDoc

I love mine. Highlights walkers and bike riders, etc way before I see them. A must have option for me

RJC

I've found MB's version of NV to be the best...luv it.

TwinCam

I have it on my 2015 S Class. Sometimes on automatic it alerts and turns on for pedestrians and bicycles on the side of the road, but 75% of the time it does not. I can turn it on manually, which I do in hazy or foggy weather and it works very well. Perhaps they improved the system on newer models.

FASTTRIP

It works pretty good when your on a road facing west and the sun is just blinding you, I can see brake lights much better, plus distronic is backing you up!

places

I've had it in several cars and used it on occasion. Personally I found it to be a bit distracting and more of a toy.

Speednet

I love it in mine. Definitely not a gimmick, because it's great at identifying things that you would not otherwise see.

bkdc

So true. In Europe, all e-bikes are required to have daytime running headlights which means they are required to run lights at night. A driver expects that a bicycle will be moving much more slowly than it actually is. The light helps alert the driver of a fast moving bike.

Even one accident avoided makes this safety feature worth it many times over. I also have front and rear dash cams in case anything like this happens. One fraudster intentionally running his bike into my rear made me run immediately to buy the dash cams.

stealth.pilot

I have night vision and I find that unless they put the night vision in the HUD, it is useless.

bkdc

When the digital display automatically identifies a figure in night-vision, my eyes immediately glance downward as my peripheral vision says “hey there’s something new”.

It would really be cool frikking technology if a modern system had eye-tracking technology and projected a big red square on the windshield representing where the person/animal is located. But a figure would still be invisible in the dark and only show up with the night vision display.

If I’d never had it, I probably wouldn’t want it. But now that I’ve had it for a few years, I can’t imagine not having it driving around the unlit roads in the hills of Malibu.

gle400

I think we should just wait for Mercedes to actually release all the details. The products shown so far are pre-production units, not running final software and some hardware changes will occur. Until they release the list of options, we really have no data to go on.

One thing I did glean from a youtube video is that the dashboard vents are metal, so excited about that.

ChuckinTucson

I have night vision in both my S63 which shows it in the center stack between the tach and speedo, and in my ML350 which has it in the center Command screen, where you have to take your eyes completely off the road to look at it. Both pretty useless.

MB-CES

I have NV on my W222 and I find it useful around the neighborhood where there may be pedestrians walking their dogs, etc. Some of my neighbors like to walk on the road instead of the sidewalk.

Hopefully they will keep it as an option on the W223.