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It's not a driverless car, but General Motors is taking a big step toward shifting control of next-generation Cadillacs from the driver's seat to the automobile itself during extended cruising.
Advanced driver assist technology is coming to an all-new 2017 model, the company announced Sunday. The innovation, called 'Super Cruise,' is essentially cruise control on steroids. It promises hands-off lane following, braking and speed control in bumper-to-bumper traffic or on long road trips. GM CEO Mary Barra revealed the advances at the Intelligent Transport System World Congress in Detroit.
'We are not doing this for the sake of the technology itself,' Barra said in a release. 'We're doing it because it's what customers around the world want. Through technology and innovation, we will make driving safer.'
The 2017 Cadillac CTS also will feature vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology, which touts being able to share critical details with other vehicles such as speed, location and direction.
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Google is famously testing a driverless car. But GM's push ups the ante with rival carmakers who have already built in self-piloting functionality from parking to lane control. But instead of handing off the car for mere seconds, GM's vision is as wide as the highway is long.
'GM is pushing the boundaries here,' Thilo Koslowski, auto analyst at Gartner Inc., told the Los Angeles Times. 'This is how the evolution to fully autonomous vehicles will occur.'
Posted by Unknown on Sunday, September 7, 2014 - Rating: 4.5
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