Self-Driving Cars
The vehicles often behave differently than human drivers in everyday life.
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The Mercedes jerks, then stops. In the middle of the parking lot entrance. “Now that’s bad,” says Kay Stepper.
The head of autonomous driving at Bosch USA actually had everything prepared down to the last detail. Together with their cooperation partner Mercedes-Benz, they screwed dozens of sensors into the floor in the parking garage of the Interconti Hotel in downtown LA. Cool drinks provided. A dozen journalists and two camera crews invited. But the demonstration fails: The Mercedes simply does not want to park without a driver.
“Connectivity issues” are to blame, the hasty explanation goes. It then works on later attempts. But he’s not quite convincing yet, the autopilot from Bosch, which in the future is supposed to steer cars into their parking spaces as if by magic.
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