Can Tesla and other fully autonomous cars really work in the real world?
The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a hoot. It features one of the highest levels of automation found on a production Merc yet, and that includes its ability to drop you off at the curb and go looking for a parking spot, all on its own. While the feature, along with several others, hasn’t been homologated for the Indian car market, it does bring into sharp relief the role played by autonomous software in driving the technology of the future. While the S-Class has been, for the longest time, tasked with bringing the future to present-day cars, in this regard it seems to have been beaten by the likes of Tesla, whose own Autopilot system is capable of helping you navigate off highways, respond to traffic lights, stop signs and be summoned from a parking lot, through a mobile app.