Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll

Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by fweimer on Friday May 06, 2022 @05:45PM (#31289897)

It's translated from 60 kph. Apparently, the current system is restricted to German highways. Those are limited to vehicles which can go at least as fast as 60 kph, and this might be where this number comes from. It's basically the slowest highway speed at which there is no controversy about legality. Targeting highways first makes sense from a complexity and data quality perspective.

Although driving at 60 kph on German highways seems quite risky; at that speed, most trucks will overtake you.

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Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by IfOnlyYouKnew on Friday May 06, 2022 @06:44PM (#31290319)

I doubt this reasoning. While it's true that 60 kph is the minimum for Autobahn, it's the minimum in the sense that the vehicle must be capable of that speed. There is no requirement to actually drive 60 kph or faster.

On the other side of the equation, nobody would feel comfortable cruising along at that speed, since you'd be continuously overtaken by trucks, which drive a little more than the allowed 80 kph unless it's physically impossible.

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Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by jhugo on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:05AM (#31292079)

The vehicle is not capable of more than 60 km/h when used in self driving mode, so the reasoning seems quite logical. I wouldn't want to use this on the Autobahn though; everyone would be overtaking constantly which introduces additional risk, and the speed is so low that journey time would be considerably inflated.

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