<p>Mercedes-Benz is marking 140 years of automotive innovation with a new S-Class lineup of vehicles built for the AI era, bringing together automotive safety and<a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solutions/autonomous-vehicles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> NVIDIA’s advanced autonomous driving platform</a> to enable a<a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/level-4-autonomous-driving-ai/"> level 4-ready</a> architecture designed for trust.</p>
<p>The new S-Class with MB.OS, which will be equipped with the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion architecture and full-stack<a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solutions/autonomous-vehicles/drive-av/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> NVIDIA DRIVE AV</a> L4 software, is designed to support future robotaxi operations — delivering safety-first autonomy with the NVIDIA Halos system and end-to-end AI and classical driving stacks running in parallel to ensure reliable operation.</p>
<p>The S-Class enables a premium, chauffeur-style autonomous experience. As part of NVIDIA’s previously announced<a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-uber-robotaxi" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> partnership with Uber</a>, the companies will work together to make these autonomous vehicles available to riders through Uber’s mobility network.</p>
<p>It showcases how legacy automakers and AI pioneers can <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solutions/autonomous-vehicles/partners/mercedes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">work together</a> to build vehicles that are safer, smarter and increasingly autonomous — without compromising the high standards of quality and safety customers expect.</p>
<p>“Mercedes-Benz has set the standard in the automotive market, building cars defined by exquisite craftsmanship and safety engineering,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in the above video celebrating the S-Class launch. “Five years ago, NVIDIA began working with Mercedes-Benz to help carry that legacy into the AI era.”</p>
<p>Traditional autonomous driving approaches often rely on predefined rules or learned responses to familiar situations. But real-world driving is filled with rare and complex edge cases — from unpredictable pedestrian behavior and debris to unusual road conditions and aggressive cut-ins.</p>
<p>NVIDIA DRIVE AV provides Mercedes-Benz’s new S-Class with a full-stack automated driving system designed to handle this long tail of driving scenarios, while remaining anchored to a safety-first architecture.</p>
<p>NVIDIA DRIVE AV is trained at scale on NVIDIA DGX systems and designed to be validated using high-fidelity simulation with NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec libraries and NVIDIA Cosmos world models.</p>
<p>Built on NVIDIA’s broader AI foundation — including advanced perception, planning and reasoning technologies — NVIDIA DRIVE AV is optimized, validated and distilled to run reliably in production vehicles, tailored to Mercedes-Benz’s vehicle platforms and sensor configurations.</p>
<p>NVIDIA DRIVE AV enables the system to analyze complex environments — rather than simply reacting to known patterns — evaluate multiple options and select the safest possible outcome in real time.<b></b></p>
<p>For level 4 autonomy, safety depends on more than simple redundancy. Vehicles must remain operational in the face of hardware faults, sensor degradation and unexpected software behavior.</p>
<p>The new S-Class will be built on<a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solutions/autonomous-vehicles/drive-hyperion" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion</a>, a reference architecture that integrates sensor diversity and hardware redundancy into a unified platform, to serve as a robotaxi.</p>
<p>DRIVE Hyperion is designed based on defense-in-depth principles:</p>
<ul>
<li>Redundant compute to help maintain operation if one processing element fails.</li>
<li>Multimodal sensor diversity — spanning cameras, radar and lidar — to support robust perception.</li>
<li>Software stack diversity, pairing AI-driven decision-making with a parallel classical safety stack to keep the vehicle operating within safe boundaries.</li>
</ul>
<p>Developed in accordance with <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-trust-center/halos/autonomous-vehicles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NVIDIA Halos</a> safety system, NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion helps eliminate single points of failure and provides the foundation needed for L4-ready systems.</p>

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