Originally Posted by coolraoul

On the E-Class it works like that:

You stop on a hill. Once the car is stopped, you brake harder and then release the brakes, and the car will hold on untill you throttle again. All you have to do, is stopping the car, push the brake harder once the car is topped and immediately then release the brakes. No handbrake, nothing.

When you want to start, you hit the throttle, and the system releases the brakes when the couple applied is enouch to move the car.

It has, at least before the FL (never drove a FL one) no Hill function: if you stop at a hill and realease the brakes, the car will not be hold. You have to purposely activate the Hold function by giving a "brake push" to the pedal once the car has stopped.

I had the function you describe in my smart Roadster-Coupe, it was holded approximatively one second. Useful feature.