Mercedes-Benz has stood firm on its stance that its customers shouldn’t be testing pre-release autonomous driving and driver assist software. The head of active safety and testing at Mercedes-Benz, Jochen Haab, told CarExpert he believes the responsibility is on the manufacturer to ensure systems are “as safe and as mature as possible”. “Half my team would be out of business!” Mr Haab joked, before continuing: “We do the beta testing, my team calls it field validation.
” “It’s our approach to have a mature system on the market, and to get it mature [and] in market. That doesn’t mean..
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“But when we bring it on the market, you will have the use case, you will have the check box, and you will have the star stamp on it – I don’t want to be arrogant – that ‘Jochen and his team beta tested it for me’. “That’s the approach we do, because you never know who drives it. I have that in my own family – my kids, okay they’re older now, but when they started to drive I wouldn’t want them to have a beta version.
“Of course, you don’t have to drive the beta version but no, I don’t believe in it. “I think it’s the responsibility of the manufacturer to ensure a system is as safe as possible and as mature as possible. That’s the Mercedes way of doing it as well.
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