The theory goes that the hangar where they were testing the S class, was unable to reliably set the radar detector to detect a stopped/slowing car, so Mercedes turned the geature off and told that someone will need to drive the car and when they go over a piece of wood, they need to apply the brakes to stop the vehicle.
However, at the last minute, some journalist was given the job of driving the car, but someone forgot to told him that it was just a simulation.
So he ended up driving into the other car...
The story then got leaked against MB's wishes (because obviously it's bad publicity) and MB sued the newspaper for what was done (it was leaked by the guy who crashed the car, probably to get revenge or something... some say he crashed the car on purpose).
So basically MB wanted to cheat during the "public viewing" that was being aired, simply because they couldn't be bothered to reset everything in a wooden hangar or outside (lack of time?) and just thought nobody would know the difference.
*shrug*
Doesn't stop me buying a Mercedes, I rather NEVER use such a feature anyway. Even if it worked perfectly well, I wanna be in charge of my driving. That's at least ONE thing I want to do. Automatic lights, windshield wipers etc... that might still be ok to leave them as automatic in a "luxury saloon" (I got the options on my car, but don't use them), but asking the car to drive for you is going too far.
Was JC honest? Who knows... only his banker does. He's been known to hype a lot of cars and put down others, even MB's at times. Car reviews are purely objective anyway.
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My new car: MB SLK55 AMG (36months, 40,000miles and still flawless)
My old car: MB SLK230K Brabus - sold
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