Tech. Cars. Machines.

Tech. Cars. Machines.


43. Georges Massing, Head of Automated Driving, Mercedes-Benz AG.

July 30, 2024

Can your AI make life-and-death decisions? Mercedes-Benz’s Drive Pilot can.  Does your AI vendor take legal responsibility for those life-and-death decisions? Mercedes does.  Drive Pilot is the only certified Level 3 passenger car system globally.  Georges Massing, global head of the company’s automated driving and cabin technologies, tells us how.  We hear his thoughts on how the technology ecosystem can work with Mercedes.


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Mercedes-Benz’s global website is here.  Host: Ali Tabibian of GTK Partners.


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(0:00) Introduction to Mercedes


(4:05) Introduction to Georges Massing


(12:50) The Mercedes brand


(17:42) The user interface


(23:25) Autonomy


(44:38) Mercedes & the ecosystem