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Mercedes-Benz just signed on to put Wayve's AI Driver into production cars within two years. That makes three major automakers: Nissan, Stellantis & now Mercedes. The interesting part is how Wayve drives, because it breaks with how self-driving has been built for fifteen years. The traditional approach is a stack of separate modules: one detects objects, one predicts what they'll do, one plans a path & they all rely on detailed pre-built maps of every street. It works, but every new city needs its own mapping & engineering. Wayve uses a single end-to-end neural network. Camera & sensor data go in, driving decisions come out, with no high-definition maps. It learns driving the way a language model learns language- from enormous amounts of examples. Wayve says it drove "zero-shot" in more than 500 cities across Europe, North America & Japan within a year. Zero-shot means no city-specific training before arriving. If that holds up at scale, it solves the biggest cost problem in autonomy. What consumers get first is more modest. From 2027, hands-off driving on supervised roads - the car steers, navigates and handles traffic, but you are still responsible & watching. Three automakers betting on the same approach is the real signal here. They're not buying a feature. They are betting the module stack was the wrong architecture.