Recently, we learned from the official that Mercedes-Benz has become one of the first companies to be approved for conditional autonomous driving (L3 level) highway road test licenses in Beijing, and has officially launched qualified autonomous driving on designated highways in Beijing. Actual test of conditional autonomous driving system.
In order to make the L3 level autonomous driving system more adaptable to China's infrastructure and traffic conditions, and to meet the "Beijing Intelligent Connected Vehicle Policy Pilot Zone Conditional Autonomous Driving Function Vehicle Road Test Management" issued by relevant Beijing departments "Details (Trial Implementation)", as early as the beginning of the global development of this system, the Chinese R&D team was deeply involved in it.
Since 2021, Mercedes-Benz has passed closed site testing and verification in China. The focus of local R&D work includes adapting the system to China’s sign markings, construction areas, and bus lanes. and special lanes such as tidal lanes, and continuously optimize the logic, algorithms and parameters of scenarios such as congestion.
In 2023, Mercedes-Benz launched the L2+ navigation assisted driving function developed by a Chinese team on the new long-wheelbase E-Class, which covers highways and urban expressways across the country. road sections, enabling high-speed point-to-point navigation-assisted driving capabilities. When driving at high speed, the vehicle can automatically change lanes, automatically stay away from large vehicles, and automatically overtake slow vehicles. This is a L2+ intelligent driving system specially designed by Mercedes-Benz for Chinese customers. For example, the automatic lane changing function can be enabled when the vehicle speed reaches 50 kilometers per hour.
Currently, officials are accelerating the optimization of the L3 system, with a view to achieving speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour on highways by the end of this decade. In addition, Mercedes-Benz has become the only car company in the world to have "dual licenses" for L3 conditional autonomous driving and L4 autonomous driverless parking (Germany).
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Editor: Graduation