 It's Chris with the verge in front of the beautiful Bay Bridge here in San Francisco and we are here for a Mercedes Benz event. Now the main event is the F015 luxury in motion, the self-driving car we saw at CES, but we are also driving the C350E that has a plug-in hybrid drivetrain and can run up to 20 miles on electric alone. We had a chance to drive the C350E down the coast a ways and there are a few interesting features about this car. The most interesting is the accelerator, it has haptic feedback which means that as you put your foot on it, it applies resistance against your foot so that you know when you are about to engage the gas engine. So if you don't want to engage the gas, you can avoid it just by not overpowering that resistance. And then also when you are coming up on a car in front of you, it sort of pulses the accelerator very quickly, twice it feels like someone is tapping on your foot and that indicates that it is time to take your foot off the accelerator. Now you are not going to buy this car over a Tesla Model S, but then again it is not designed to compete with the Model S. It is a very different car at a very different price point. It is smaller, the performance envelope is different, really it is designed to compete with a BMW 3 Series which the C-Class is always designed to compete with. The BMW has hybrid versions of that now and now Mercedes has a version of the C-Class to match. It is going to be coming out in the US later this year and now I am going to go get driven around in a self-driving F015.
 It's Chris with the verge in front of the beautiful Bay Bridge here in San Francisco
 and we are here for a Mercedes Benz event.
 Now the main event is the F015 luxury in motion, the self-driving car we saw at CES, but we
 are also driving the C350E that has a plug-in hybrid drivetrain and can run up to 20 miles
 on electric alone.
 We had a chance to drive the C350E down the coast a ways and there are a few interesting
 features about this car.
 The most interesting is the accelerator, it has haptic feedback which means that as you
 put your foot on it, it applies resistance against your foot so that you know when you
 are about to engage the gas engine.
 So if you don't want to engage the gas, you can avoid it just by not overpowering that
 resistance.
 And then also when you are coming up on a car in front of you, it sort of pulses the
 accelerator very quickly, twice it feels like someone is tapping on your foot and that indicates
 that it is time to take your foot off the accelerator.
 Now you are not going to buy this car over a Tesla Model S, but then again it is not
 designed to compete with the Model S. It is a very different car at a very different price
 point.
 It is smaller, the performance envelope is different, really it is designed to compete
 with a BMW 3 Series which the C-Class is always designed to compete with.
 The BMW has hybrid versions of that now and now Mercedes has a version of the C-Class
 to match.
 It is going to be coming out in the US later this year and now I am going to go get driven
 around in a self-driving F015.