Tesla vs Mercedes self-driving test ends in 40+ interventions as Elon Musk says FSD is years ahead

While Mercedes-Benz got its Drive Pilot Level 3 autonomous driving system certified for certain roads in the US, its Level 2 Driver Assistance service leaves something to be desired against Tesla's FSD.

Tesla's option, however, is also much more expensive than the $1,950 that Mercedes charges for the Plus package.

Consumer Reports recently graded the Mercedes-Benz Driver Assistance option higher than Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system.

Just like in another such driver-assist systems ranking where Lexus took the lead, the advantages of the Mercedes solution were mainly in the categories related to keeping the driver engaged and responsive, as well as more aware of the safe use case scenarios.

As a new Mercedes Driver Assist vs Tesla FSD test video proves, however, this might be mainly because the German system requires more interventions compared to Tesla's solution that is four times pricier.

In a picture-in-picture driving comparison, the Mercedes Level 2 drive-assist system made rookie errors steering off the road, or mistaking turn sections for actual lanes.

These are things that FSD also did at one point many moons ago, but driving on V12 now required zero interventions.

When compared to the 44 situations where the Mercedes driver had to take the wheel to prevent this or that from happening, FSD had the clear advantage.

Elon Musk apparently watched the video as well, and confirmed that, according to his calculations, Tesla is at least 5 years ahead of everyone, despite that it relies just on a camera-only Vision approach. 

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