Mercedes-Benz autopilot technology is coming

At the Frankfurt Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz used a S500 Smart Driving Test Vehicle to show the world the possibilities of future autonomous driving technology. The S500 Smart Driving Test Vehicle successfully completed a 100-kilometre pilotless pilot trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim, successfully achieving unmanned driving within the city and across cities. The future development of transportation is a milestone.

The self-driving S500 test vehicle needs to handle a series of very complex situations autonomously, from traffic lights, roundabout signs, speed limit signs, to bus systems to pedestrians and cyclists who may emerge at any time, although this is for human drivers. It is an ordinary driving situation, but for the electronic system, it needs to use all the processing power. The technology used on the S500 test car is already very close to the mass production standard, and some of the features have been applied on the new E-Class and the new S-Class.

Thomas Weber, director of Daimler AG and head of technology development at Mercedes-Benz, introduced: “We did not plan separate closed-air sections or long-distance straight-line driving for the test vehicles. As part of this, we have found an important forward-looking research direction, that is, we cannot limit autopilot to freeway cruising, but we must expand its capabilities to more complex traffic conditions. Teams can use ready-made technology reserves. We are very surprised to achieve such a deep level of results, but we also benefited from the complex experimental conditions, because we know how much time church cars need to respond to complex traffic situations. Efforts, because every road in the world is different, we also conducted the verification of autopilot for the first time on the premise of traffic jams, and we can see that the technology is maturely used in production models in the fastest 10 years. ."