TapTechNews August 2nd news, Mercedes-Benz today announced that it has become the first international automaker to be simultaneously permitted to conduct L4-level urban and high-speed highway autonomous driving tests in Beijing.
According to the introduction, L4-level vehicles independently complete most driving tasks in scenarios without the need for the driver to take over, and have the following characteristics:
The test vehicle is equipped with abundant sensors
Equipped with redundant systems to further enhance safety
In busy urban sections, it can easily complete actions such as parking in and out of parking spaces, turning around, entering and exiting roundabouts, and making unprotected left turns.
On high-speed sections, it can realize actions such as automatic lane changing when the preceding vehicle slows down and automatic passing through toll stations.
In extreme cases, execute the minimum risk strategy and find a safe location to park by itself.
TapTechNews noticed that Mercedes-Benz has already become the world's first automaker to achieve L3-level autonomous driving for commercial vehicles in Europe and America, and was one of the first batch of enterprises permitted to conduct L3-level highway road tests in Beijing last year.
Mercedes-Benz previously stated that since 2021, the company has continuously improved the system performance through closed-course testing and verification in China. The focus of local R & D work includes enabling the system to adapt to Chinese signs, markings, construction areas, bus lanes, tidal lanes and other special lanes, and continuously optimizing the logic, algorithms and parameters in scenarios such as cutting in.
In Mercedes-Benz's 'hometown' Germany, models such as the S-Class and the EQS pure electric sedan already have optional L3-level autonomous driving systems, which allow the driver to enable the L3-level conditional autonomous driving mode on German high-speed sections with appropriate widths during peak traffic or congestion periods at a maximum speed of 60 kilometers per hour.