Will Audi lead Mercedes-Benz?

Look at the development of luxury brands, the basic value of the competition has come to an end, whether it is German Department of Mercedes-Benz BMW Audi, or Japanese Lexus Acura Infiniti, family design is very city, and the basic has been stereotypes. Like the BMW's kidneys, with a few decades, it is estimated that the next few decades will not change. So the next round of luxury brand competition, will be a technical technology Competition.
This one contest has two key points, the first is the new energy, the second is the intelligent automatic driving, now see who can dominate really hard to say. Let's take a look at autopilot first.
According to a foreign media statistics, the current stage of automatic driving technology fit bmw e46 coilovers for sale patent competition, the German enterprises still dominate the number of patents in the top ten enterprises inside, there are six German companies, suppliers Bosch largest patent, the German mainland third. Car companies side is Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler. The remaining three are US Ford, GM and Google. Japan Toyota ranked seventh.
May be a lot of people noticed that in the autopilot practice the furthest and most deep Google, the patent actually bottom. Car companies are hidden, especially the Audi car dealers ranked first.
Audi is still in the global sales of Mercedes-Benz BMW in the back, then enter the new consumer era, Audi can lead it? At this stage of the luxury brand competition, are the traditional technology competition, such as BBA's three pieces, four-wheel drive technology, interior electronic accessories, interior and exterior design luxury and so on. Automatic driving technology may not be the same, directly related to traffic safety.
Audi's autopilot technology is the most complete use of the new generation of Audi A8, Level3 can achieve automatic driving, the driver only need to be responsible for the emergency situation. In fact, the new A8 is nothing but equipped with sensor sensors, all kinds of radar, night vision system, laser, camera and so on.
The new 7 series, although there are gestures and other technical control configuration, but in the eyes of consumers, can only be said to be intelligent driving. Mercedes-Benz S-class models equipped with Intelligent Drive driving support system, said that the actual can achieve four automatic e46 m3 coilovers driving function, but Mercedes-Benz does not emphasize this point, because the facelift technology application will not change too much.
So the number of patents does not represent the actual technical matching and application capabilities. Now the number of patent applications of independent brands, has more than overseas brands, the actual strength we all know. Luxury brand is not necessarily the advantage of the same Audi, at the starting point of the case, as long as the independent brand effort, or have the opportunity to become world-class.