{"id":346907,"date":"2026-02-23T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/following-mercedes-bmw-also-abandons-level-3-automated-driving\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:45:07","slug":"following-mercedes-bmw-also-abandons-level-3-automated-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/following-mercedes-bmw-also-abandons-level-3-automated-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Mercedes, BMW also abandons Level 3 automated driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/following-mercedes-bmw-also-abandons-level-3-automated-driving.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Bmw 7er personal pilot adas automatisiertes fahren\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>Following Mercedes-Benz, BMW has also apparently discontinued its system for highly automated driving at SAE Level 3. The Munich-based company seems to share the same assessment as its Stuttgart counterpart: Level 3 can only be used in a few scenarios, yet the technology is expensive. Instead, the focus will remain on Level 2+. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/02\/23\/following-mercedes-bmw-also-abandons-level-3-automated-driving\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>width=&#8221;1400&#8243; height=&#8221;933&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/following-mercedes-bmw-also-abandons-level-3-automated-driving.jpg&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;Bmw 7er personal pilot adas automatisiertes fahren&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;Following Mercedes-Benz, BMW has also apparently discontinued its system for highly automated driving at SAE Level 3. The Munich-based company seems to share the same assessment as its Stuttgart counterpart: Level 3 can only be used&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/following-mercedes-bmw-also-abandons-level-3-automated-driving\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":346908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}