Mercedes-Benz

===Robot cars===
{{main|Driverless car}}
In the 1980s Mercedes built the world's first robot car, together with the team of Professor [[Ernst Dickmanns]] at [[Bundeswehr University Munich]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/robotcars.html |first=Jürgen |last=Schmidhuber |title=Prof. Schmidhuber's highlights of robot car history |year=2009 |access-date=15 July 2011 |archive-date=3 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303200320/http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/robotcars.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Encouraged in part by Dickmanns' success, in 1987 the European Union's [[EUREKA]] programme initiated the [[EUREKA Prometheus Project|Prometheus Project]] on autonomous vehicles, funded to the tune of nearly €800&nbsp;million. In 1995 Dickmanns' re-engineered autonomous [[Mercedes-Benz S-Class|S-Class]] Mercedes took a long trip from [[Munich]] in Bavaria to [[Copenhagen]] in Denmark, and back. On highways, the robot achieved speeds exceeding {{convert|175|km/h|abbr=on}} (permissible in some areas of the German [[Autobahn]]).

In October 2015, the company introduced the Vision Tokyo, a five-seat self-driving electric van powered by a hybrid hydrogen fuel-cell system. The super-sleek van is touted as "a chill-out zone in the midst of megacity traffic mayhem."<ref>{{cite web|title = Mercedes' Vision Tokyo Concept: A Self-Driving Rave Van|url = https://www.yahoo.com/autos/mercedes-benz-vision-tokyo-concept-031507979.html|website = www.yahoo.com/autos|access-date = 27 October 2015|archive-date = 20 November 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151120084800/https://www.yahoo.com/autos/mercedes-benz-vision-tokyo-concept-031507979.html|url-status = live}}</ref>