How good is Cadillac’s Super Cruise ‘hands-free’ car technology?
Semi-autonomous system for dual-carriageway driving, launched by American carmaker in flagship CT6 saloon last year, will be used in all Cadillacs by 2020
This article was written by Matthew DeBord and originally appeared on Business Insider.
Cadillac has been touting its Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving technology for several years and contrasting it with Tesla’s Autopilot system.
While Tesla has been rolling out Autopilot in beta-ish fashion, gathering data and updating on the fly, Cadillac and its parent company, General Motors, have exercised abundant caution.
The expansion of Super Cruise ... shows Cadillac's commitment to innovation, and to making customers’ lives better. GM is just as committed to ushering in a new era of personal transport – and technologies like these will enable it
Super Cruise went live last year, and Cadillac just announced that it will be offered beyond the flagship CT6 saloon in all of its vehicles by 2020.
Other GM car brands will get the technology after 2020.
This news comes at a time when Tesla’s Autopilot has come under scrutiny after a fatal crash in March.
“The expansion of Super Cruise ... shows Cadillac's commitment to innovation, and to making customers’ lives better,” said Mark Reuss GM’s vice-president of global product development.
“GM is just as committed to ushering in a new era of personal transport – and technologies like these will enable it.”
In 2017, Cadillac invited me to test Super Cruise on a drive from New York to Washington. This was the first leg of a coast-to-coast jaunt, and some of my fellow journalists continued on from Washington to Cleveland.