Mercedes Benz Insider on BEVs from 🇨🇳 China "They are light years ahead of us in taking customers' habits and wishes into account. We're trapped in regulations and processes." Chinese manufacturers would immediately implement customer requests. One example is the sleeper function. The car adjusts the seats to a horizontal position, preheats itself and filters the air. Chinese customers could then briefly sleep in the car for 30 minutes during their lunch break. Although this is nothing more than a combination of existing technologies, German manufacturers in China have to go through months of internal coordination processes to achieve this. Chinese OEMs simply implement something like this.