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摘要

When Mercedes-Benz Trucks launched the latest version of the Actros, in September 2018, there was always going to be a lot to talk about. With 60 new innovations, four of which were 'world firsts', much of the transport press concentrated on the most visible - MirrorCam, in place of physical mirrors and arms, and MultiMedia Cockpit, which removes the vast majority of the usual switches and dials from the dashboard and replaces them with two tablet screens (pictured p13; see also for example www.is.gd/vuyoqu). Get behind the wheel of Actros 5 and these two features are, indeed, immediately obvious. But today the focus is on something far more clever that seems to have slipped under the proverbial radar: the first-ever example of Level 2 vehicle autonomy in full production in a heavy commercial vehicle.