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Re:Mercedes Is the First Automaker to Offer Level 3 Self-Dri... by ahartmetz on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:53AM (#34336491)
I kind of like it, it's moving away from the overly aggressive looking style of most modern cars. Maybe we can have cars for adults again instead of these Transformers-style designs. A shape that is fit for purpose (aerodynamic) is part of that.

BMW and Mercedes switch places periodically in technical and design leadership, and I think it's Mercedes's time. BMW has been going off the rails recently...

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Re:Mercedes Is the First Automaker to Offer Level 3 Self-Dri... by ricardobayes on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:11AM (#34336606)
As a kid I remember standing in ave when a new car came out, very few cars have that effect anymore (on me). New car design generally is pretty meh nowadays. Seems mid-2000s leading up to 2014-15 was peak.
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Re:Mercedes Is the First Automaker to Offer Level 3 Self-Dri... by llampx on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:22AM (#34336666)
You also grew up and the world changed in that time. I had the same thing, but I realized it was just my teenage years romanticizing the designs of that era.
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Re:Mercedes Is the First Automaker to Offer Level 3 Self-Dri... by smabie on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:53AM (#34338431)
Or maybe what changed was that you are no longer a kid
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Re:Mercedes Is the First Automaker to Offer Level 3 Self-Dri... by kreetx on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @09:30AM (#34338837)
Off-topic but I had the same thing with sneakers. There seemed to be all kinds of interesting experiments up until mid-2000s, but there is pretty much nothing to look at in today's stores.
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Re:Mercedes Is the First Automaker to Offer Level 3 Self-Dri... by lamontcg on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:21PM (#34345046)
Incorrect. The 1984-1991 Ferrari Testarossa was the peak. Source: poster in my bedroom.
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Re:Mercedes Is the First Automaker to Offer Level 3 Self-Dri... by epolanski on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @07:02AM (#34337514)
Still, it's pretty uninspired and unless you're heavily into cars looks like any other Mercedes out there.
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Re:Mercedes Is the First Automaker to Offer Level 3 Self-Dri... by leokennis on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:20AM (#34338070)
Good observation. Most cars nowadays look like the "cool super car" models from Lego or Matchbox from the past. It always makes me assume their drivers are 12 year olds trapped in grown up bodies.
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