{"id":7806,"date":"2013-10-07T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2013\/10\/mercedes-benz-shows-off-their-self.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T04:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T04:02:58","slug":"mercedes-benz-shows-off-their-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2013\/10\/mercedes-benz-shows-off-their-self.html","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes Benz shows off their self driving car and say it will be ready within six years"},"content":{"rendered":"

With its S 500 INTELLIGENT DRIVE research vehicle, Mercedes-Benz in August 2013 became the world’s first automobile manufacturer to demonstrate that autonomous driving in rural and urban traffic is possible.<\/p>\n

Mercedes-Benz will start selling cars that can fully drive themselves by 2020. But it won\u2019t launch a special vehicle just for that purpose.<\/a> Rather, it looks to incorporate autonomous driving technology into its regular lineup, most likely starting with its flagship model, the S-Class.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur approach is, let\u2019s not do it with a special car with a lot of antennas, let\u2019s do it with a standard car,\u201d said Thomas Weber, head of product engineering for Mercedes.<\/p>\n

Recently, an experimental vehicle called the S500 Intelligent Drive completed a journey of more than 60 miles driving completely autonomousl<\/p>\n