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Originally Posted by DGthe3
For anyone interested, the chief engineer for SuperCruise was on Autoline After Hours this past week.
http://www.autoline.tv/journal/?p=55668
There both a video and a podcast version of the show. I listen to the podcast, as the show is mostly just 4 people sitting down talking to each other for an hour or so.
He's on for the first 45 minutes or so, talking about how the technology works (including the attention monitoring camera) and some of its limitations. After that, they mostly discuss recent auto news including monthly sales, Sergio's plans at FCA, & Mark Ruess's little 'whoopsie' with a pace car last weekend. |
Sorry, still not impressed.
Actually, Super Cruise is worse and more dangerous than I first thought. The engineer is a nice guy, but that's about it. After his raging success with the 8-speed automatic, he's now in charge of this? Basically, they are only scratching the surface of this system, relying on customer trial and error and the rest of the motoring public as guinea pigs.
Just for example...For the sake of some unnecessary Cadillac driver "convenience", not safety, the car could be brought to a complete stop in traffic, or in the middle of nowhere on a dark road, in the lane for the purpose of teaching the driver how to properly use his convenient super-cruise. WTF? Heaven forbid some family rear ends this car sitting dead in the water because the jack-job driver doesn't know what he's doing, or does know and thinks, screw it, I'll just restart it, hopefully before someone plows into the back of me on this high-speed highway. Good God. I can't believe they think this is a good idea. As a result of looking away for too long, and enjoying the exclusive experience of not having any hands on the steering wheel, the system will plant your car stopped in traffic for everyone else to deal with as an inconvenience or dangerous vehicle stopped unnecessarily in the middle of a high-speed lane? Nothing mechanically wrong with the car, just a driver who doesn't appreciate the convenience offered by Cadillac Super-Cruise.
In offering hands free driving as some sort of attractive driver convenience, a new unsafe circumstance is created that does not need to exist.
I hope the insurance companies or some good lawyers wake up to this bs and put a stop to it before it gets "out of control" or kills another innocent motorist.