Cadillac is planning to make Super Cruise available on all models beginning in 2020, with other GM brands to follow after that time. Cadillac?s Super Cruise feature can automatically steer, brake, and keep the vehicle positioned on the highway in certain, optimal conditions. The automaker is also planning to offer V2X communications in a high-volume crossover by 2023, and eventually expand that technology across the product range.
Market Position
With the broader implementation of these technologies, GM believes they can better serve consumers in the future.
?The expansion of Super Cruise and V2X communications technology demonstrates Cadillac?s commitment to innovation, and to making customers? lives better,? explained Mark Reuss, GM Executive Vice President of Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain. ?GM is just as committed to ushering in a new era of personal transportation, and technologies like these will enable it.? ?Cadillac is proud to be the leader for the company?s innovation,? added Steve Carlisle, Cadillac President.
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Super Cruise Features
Super Cruise uses high precision LiDAR map and GPS data, an advanced driver attention system, and a network of camera and radar sensors. Cadillac says customers can drive hands-free on more than 130,000 miles of limited-access freeways in the United States and Canada, provided they have an active OnStar plan with emergency services.
“The driver attention system helps to keep drivers...