WTF is a "possible individual solution"??

Does that mean if you slip them a tenner they'll enable it?
I assume there are no technical restrictions to enable this because the prerequisites are fitted to the car. As far as I can tell these are:
- stereo forward facing camera, used for lane identification and tracking
- Blind spot assist radar for detecting obstacles either side of car
- Steering assist for keeping vehicle in lane (and therefore able to apply force to steering system to move it out of lane)
- Comand Online with GPS mapping to verify road is a dual carriageway (not 100% it uses this data)
I also assume they created a single build of the software globally and enable and disable features based on the local market and customer selected options.
Therefore, I assume:
- The functionality was developed, validated and released during vehicle development and disabled for early UK models in the configuration due to the local law. The 2017 models are not running some new version of software specifically with this feature added - it was always there, just disabled in 2016 cars.
- The functionality works both sides of the vehicle irrespective of the side of the road the local market drives on
- A dealer does not need to install new firmware or carry out any kind of post-installation tests to validate it, and no additional development work is needed to validate it on our vehicles.
With all this in mind, the only reason I can think of for not enabling it on our 2016 cars is that they would have to communicate this new feature and it's behaviour to vehicle owners.
You can imagine if you had driven the car for a year with Drive Pilot without this function (and didn't know about it), went for the service where they enabled the feature and didn't explicitly tell you about it, the first time you put on the turn signal while using Drive Pilot, it could be quite the shock! In short, it's more work for no more revenue but a slightly higher risk of grief from unsuspecting customers!
I went back to Mercedes saying I was disappointed and I suggested that if customers asked for it, they should permit the dealers to do it (since if you ask for it, you probably know about it, how it works etc.). I guess it could be off by default and you have to enable it from the menu.
No response so far, but not expecting one either. It's not the end of the world, and it's fun to sometimes get back involved with driving the car. Like the olden days.