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After Tesla’s fart mode, Mercedes bets on comfort to blow customers away – Sydney Morning Herald
Seats, and back seats in particular, have emerged as a key battleground in the car industry, where the rise of automated driving has made the passenger experience as important as that of the driver.
It has led the Lastenheft, or engineering blueprint, of the S-Class to expand from a pamphlet into a huge tome.
“The Lastenheft for this S-Class which was conceptualised in 2014 is now 689 pages long,” Weissinger said at the Daimler-owned company’s factory in Sindelfingen.
“That’s a fivefold increase from 30 years ago.”
Seats, and rear seats in particular, have emerged as a key battleground in the car industry, where the rise of automated driving has made the passenger experience as important…
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