the Level 3 autonomous driving system set to launch this year in Germany<\/a><\/span><\/strong> on the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe addition of over-the-air update technology on all future products will change the game for carmakers and car buyers alike, said K\u00e4llenius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen you bought a car in the past, that marked the peak of its technical capabilities,\u201d he explained. \u201cNow, you can add fresh software and keep adding more technology to the vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, even a previously owned Mercedes will be able to add features that can make it feel new again, K\u00e4llenius said \u2014 while providing the automaker a revenue stream long after the car was driven off the dealer lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The auto industry is experiencing tough times right now, and Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola K\u00e4llenius confirmed that, noting the company is dealing with “more than one curveball.” Find out more from TheDetroitBureau’s time with the executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,1608,10,1164,2648,1347,9],"tags":[5305,5304,607,5306,5303,1690],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221347,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221330\/revisions\/221347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221330"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=221330"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=221330"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=221330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}