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Mercedes receives California permit for Level 3 automated driving

California issued Mercedes-Benz a deployment permit for DRIVE PILOT, allowing conditional automated highway driving without active human control during daylight below 40 miles per hour.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM47confidence 97/100

Why it moved the index

The binding permit enabled commercial Level 3 operation in which the system, rather than a continuously supervising driver, controlled the vehicle under specified public-road conditions.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 47 · confidence 97

    New June 2023 consequential physical-autonomy deployment authorization.

    12 Aug 2026

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