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Mercedes-Benz integrates with Google Assistant

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Mercedes-Benz announced its integration with the Google Assistant on Google Home. Google Home, a voice-activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant, makes it possible to interact with the Mercedes-Benz vehicle from home. The feature will be available to Mercedes-Benz customers in 2017.

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Daimler and Google deepen strategic partnership

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These applications significantly accelerate time-to-market in Mercedes-Benz passenger cars. The collaboration will enable Daimler to use Google Maps for their in-car map displays, and significantly improve their ability to integrate Google services into Mercedes-Benz passenger vehicles.

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Autonomy orders 23,000 EVs from 17 automakers; $1.2B order covers 45 EV models

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Autonomy’s order was placed with the fleet departments of the following automakers: BMW, Canoo, Fisker, Ford, General Motors, Hyundai, Kia, Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Polestar, Rivian, Stellantis, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, VinFast, Volvo and Volkswagen. Production Forecasts: Vehicle will be available to purchase before the end of 2023.

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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

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A new car-sharing platform from Mercedes-Benz will go online at the start of December. The acronym CASE is the name given to the specific area of strategy at Mercedes‑Benz Cars that focuses on the future-oriented issues of “connectivity”, “ autonomous driving”, “sharing” and “electric drive systems”. Earlier post.).

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Shelby Mustang Mach-E, BMW M5 spy shots: Car News Headlines

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Aurora is the self-driving technology company founded by one of the original engineers of the Google Self-Driving Car Project, now Waymo, and it’s also working on a robotaxi service in partnership with Toyota. You’ll find these stories and more in today’s car news, right here at Motor Authority.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these. The driver is expected to be available for occasional control, but with sufficiently comfortable transition time. Features are paving the way to self-driving cars.

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Mercedes-Benz previews its in-house developed operating system MB.OS

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Mercedes-Benz outlined its plans as the architect of its own operating system MB.OS, which will be introduced mid-decade with the new MMA platform (Mercedes Modular Architecture). Place Details provided by Google will be available starting today in all vehicles with the latest generation of MBUX in applicable markets.

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