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Mercedes-Benz to test self-driving cars on California roads

Mercedes-Benz has followed Volkswagen AGs Audi unit in getting a license to test self- driving vehicles on California roads as the luxury-car makers vie for a market predicted to grow to $87 billion by 2030.

By Christoph Rauwald | Updated on September 18, 2014
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) — Mercedes-Benz has followed Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit in getting a license to test self- driving vehicles on California roads as the luxury-car makers vie for a market predicted to grow to $87 billion by 2030.

Mercedes, the third-biggest producer of premium cars received a newly required license from California to conduct tests in daily traffic, the Stuttgart, Germany-based manufacturer said in a statement. The announcement comes two days after Audi, the second-largest luxury carmaker, said it received the first such permit in the state.

Eight-lane highways, traffic lights on the far side of an intersection and all-way stop signs are “all situations which do not exist in this form in Germany,” said Axel Gern, head of autonomous driving research for Mercedes in North America. “We need to teach our research vehicles these situations.”

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