The F800 includes a feature called Distronic Plus Traffic Jam Assistant. The system allows the car to maintain its place while cruising along in a lane and to follow the vehicle in front of it at speeds up to 25 miles per hour -- even through curves.
Many luxury cars are able to keep a pre-set distance in front of them without the driver having to work the brake and accelerator. Drivers still have to steer. Not here:
The system even recognizes when the car ahead of it is changing lanes and doesn't blindly follow behind. It knows when a curve is really a curve.
"The driver can just sit back and relax — with hands on the steering wheel," Mercedes says. When the car's speed starts to creep above 25 mph, it gradually dampens the steering torque and leaves the driving to the driver.
The first Distronic proximity-controlled cruise control showed up in the F100 concept in 1991 and made its production debut in the S-Class in 1998.
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