2013 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, confirmed tech details revealed - photos

agree 100%

You may not need it, but it can save your life.

Reliability record for 'being the newest in technology' is not great. You are right about every other car manufacturer will copy them, but its always when the technology has matured, pretty reliable, and the cost is substantially down. Of course if you can afford to buy the S-Class brand new, reliability should not be a problem because all this technology usually are pretty good the first few years. And being the rich, always leases or just change their cars every few years. That's why the S-class is dirt cheap on the used car market. But as always, the S-class is indeed the leader in the ultra lux market with the newest gadgets.

i don't know about anyone else but i enjoy driving. If i had the money i would have one of these to go from place to place, i'd have a C63 AMG coupe black series for the pleasure of driving.

honestly, I agree with you and also this moment (driving itself) will probably come sooner than we think. And yes, I'm a fan of driving too, but... well, the future belongs to these cars (sooner or later)... when our grandchildren will probably lough seeing how we drive cars today...