Mercedes Launches Parking Lot to Destination Driver Assist in USA

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Similar to Tesla’s “Full Self Driving (Supervised)” system, Mercedes has launched SAE-Level 2 driver-assist technology in the United States, starting out in the all-new electric CLA, that is combined with the navigation system.

The name of the system is MB.DRIVE ASSIST PRO — because they couldn’t come up with a longer and more boring name. But, hey, who cares about the name, and at least it’s not a legally questionable name that implies it can do much more than it can.

Here’s more from Mercedes on what the system can do: “With Mercedes-Benz’s MB.DRIVE ASSIST PRO, driving assistance and navigation merge to create a completely new and safe driving experience. At the press of a button, the vehicle can help navigate through the city streets – from the parking lot to the destination – with advanced SAE-Level 2 assistance. Thanks to Mercedes-Benz’s cooperative steering approach, steering adaptions are possible at any time without deactivating the system.”

And here’s a bit more on what Mercedes is using to do this: “MB.DRIVE ASSIST PRO uses some 30 sensors, including 10 cameras, 5 radar sensors and 12 ultrasonic sensors. All of these provide raw data to an extremely powerful supercomputer, which is capable of up to 508 TOPs.” This is powered by NVIDIA AI, was developed in partnership with NVIDIA, and uses full-stack software.

Well, that’s basically it for now. However, note that the United States is not the first place that is getting this technology. China got it first — of course. Mercedes rolled it out in China at the end of 2025, while it comes to the US later this year.

Is this driver-assist technology as good as Tesla’s? We have no clue, of course, since we haven’t been able to test it out yet. I imagine it won’t be as good as FSD (Supervised) initially. However, I wonder how much the 5 radar sensors, 12 ultrasonic sensors, and NVIDIA partnership will lead to some benefits. We’ll see.