“I hope we hit traffic,” Mercedes-Benz’s autonomous driving engineer quips as we depart from Santa Monica, California. Not a oft-heard statement, but, for today’s purposes, an apt one. The goal of Mercedes-Benz’s newly (and provisionally) allowed self-driving suite — Level 3, for the initiated — is to find all the traffic jams. The Three-Pointed Star brand recently bested Tesla in achieving Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Level 3, wherein your self-driving-equipped S-Class or EQS sedan will pilot itself
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