What kind of experience is it to ride the Mercedes-Benz F 015 Autopilot?

Absrtact: At this year's CES, Mercedes-Benz CEO Dieter Zetsche said that the current automatic driving technology is quite mature. As early as 2013, a Mercedes Benz Intelligent Drive completed about 100 kilometers of automatic driving on the road. In Mercedes-Benz's eyes, technology is not the point,

At this year's CES, Mercedes-Benz CEO Dieter Zetsche said that the current automatic driving technology is quite mature. As early as 2013, a Mercedes Benz Intelligent Drive completed about 100 kilometers of automatic driving on the road.

In Mercedes-Benz's eyes, technology is not the focus, and how people and cars interact is the most fundamental. F 015 is currently not overly concerned with sensor and computer hardware issues, focusing on design and interaction. So the prototype I'm trying to take today is not fully automated. For now, F 015 can only be driven on a closed site, in accordance with predetermined routes and simple commands.

The place we tried was a runway at the former Naval Air Station, and there were no people or cars in a few miles.

Well, let's give a complete description of the process.

We were standing on the roadside, an engineer using his own developed iOS app to remotely invoke the nearby F 015来 to pick us up. This app will also incorporate self-management functions such as automatic parking in the future.

When the car comes in, the LED of the body emits blue light, which tells the person outside the car that it is now in autopilot mode. LED white light, it means that the artificial driving mode.

The car was parked next to us, and I was going to bypass the front door and get on the other side. When I passed the front of the car, led flashing, indicating that pedestrians are passing. The outside speaker of the car makes a sound and says "go projectile."

The door was well designed because the column B was removed. When the door is open, four seats in the car will automatically rotate, facing the door, to facilitate the seating of passengers.

When I saw the car, I was shocked by two things: a lot of screens were integrated into the car, four doors have oversized touch screen, the center console is a narrow touch screen, folded into a small table shape, dashboard is a very wide display, by hand gestures control; second, the cabin is too dazzling, the midday sun shines on so many screens , the reflected sunlight simply blinds the dog's eyes.

The driver's seat is a Mercedes representative. The autopilot mode is turned on and the steering wheel is indented the dashboard. He tapped a button and the seat rotated 180 degrees toward the rear passenger.

The touch screen on the door is omnipotent, showing speed, perimeter information, estimated arrival time, and video calling. The most interesting thing is that in the automatic mode, four passengers can be "driver", choose the destination and route, set the speed.

Play screen, chat, soon, we are at the end of the runway. The moment I got off the bus, I realized that for the last 15 minutes, I hadn't looked out of the window for a second.

Sitting in the driver's seat, two eyes ahead, hands on the steering wheel, one foot refueling, one foot brake-now the car manufacturing, always around this model. In the eyes of F 015, one can safely give himself to the car. Good times, why not take it to do something else?

I'm a very alert person. Usually, if the girlfriend let me sit in deputy seat, she came to drive, I always have a bit uneasy feeling. F 015 Lightly relieved my alert heart, I was so relieved to be a return to the driver. In retrospect, I felt strange.

But then again, from F 015, I seem to have a glimpse of the future.