The 2023 Cadillac CT4-V is a compact sport sedan that can be equipped with the Super Cruise hands-free highway driving system, which works on 400,000 miles of roads. The Cadillac CT4-V was very much designed to be a driver's car, but it can drive itself … some of the time. The compact sports sedan is available with the latest version of Cadillac's Super Cruise highway driving system, which provides hands-free lane-centering adaptive cruise control. Super Cruise uses high definition cameras, ultrasonic sensors and radar to keep an eye on its surroundings, while hyper-accurate GPS maps help position it on the road. It now works on over 400,000 miles of certified roads across North America and can also check for traffic and change lanes at the flick of the turn signal or automatically if there is a slower car in front of it.

Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla (TSLA.O) Autopilot or General Motors (GM.N) Super Cruise often treat their vehicles as fully self-driving despite warnings, a new study has found. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), an industry funded group that prods automakers to make safer vehicles, said on Tuesday a survey found regular users of Super Cruise, Nissan/Infiniti (7201.T) ProPILOT Assist and Tesla Autopilot "said they were more likely to perform non-driving-related activities like eating or texting while using their partial automation systems than while driving unassisted." The IIHS study of 600 active users found 53% of Super Cruise, 42% of Autopilot and 12% of ProPILOT Assist owners "said that they were comfortable treating their vehicles as fully self-driving." About 40% of users of Autopilot and Super Cruise – two systems with lockout features for failing to pay attention – reported systems had at some point switched off while they were driving and would not reactivate.

The 2021 Cadillac Escalade is available with the latest version of GM's hands-free Super Cruise highway driving aid. Fox News Autos Editor Gary Gastelu lets it take him for a ride. You'll soon be able to get your kicks on Route 66 without using your feet … or hands. General Motors has announced an upcoming update to its feet-and-hands-free Super Cruise highway driving system that will double the amount of roads it can operate on. The system is an advanced cruise control that is enabled by a database of hyper-accurate 3D maps that were created with the use of lidar scanners mounted to scouting vehicles that drove the actual roads.

The government will soon release data on collisions involving vehicles with autonomous or partially automated driving systems that will likely single out Tesla for a disproportionately high number of such crashes. In coming days, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to issue figures it has been gathering for nearly a year. The agency said in a separate report last week that it had documented more than 200 crashes involving Teslas that were using Autopilot, "Full Self-Driving," Traffic-Aware Cruise Control or some other of the company's partially automated systems. Tesla's figure and its crash rate per 1,000 vehicles was substantially higher than the corresponding numbers for other automakers that provided such data to The Associated Press ahead of NHTSA's release. The number of Tesla collisions was revealed as part of a NHTSA investigation of Teslas on Autopilot that had crashed into emergency and other vehicles stopped along roadways.

Bluster around the advent of self-driving cars has become a constant in the automotive world in recent years. Much is promised by all comers, but real-world results – and customer-ready technologies – remain scarce on the street. Today, we'll dive in and take a look at the current state of play. What makes a self-driving car, how close are the main players, and what can we expect to come around the corner? The phrase "self-driving car" may seem straightforward, but it can mean many different things to different people. Technological limitations also play a part, and so the Society of Automotive Engineers stepped up to create classifications that make clear what any given autonomous or semi-autonomous car is capable of.

Despite the improvements to the Ultra Cruise, General Motors claims that the driver you will need to be aware of the road and streets while the system is working. This is because it is still considered a level 2 autonomous driving pack, as it does not recognize 1024% of situations of traffic. An example given by the company was the roundabouts, which, oddly enough, cannot be distinguished by cameras and radars. In practice, the difference between the Ultra and the Super is that the first, in addition to having more streets in your database, you'll be able to re-route and adapt to traffic conditions much more easily, as your sensors and cameras will be far superior. And, unlike what happens at Tesla, the LiDAR will show up in GM cars, as the company still considers it the best device on the market for this type of system. The expectation from General Motors is that Ultra Cruise will start appearing in their cars in 2017. Did you like this article? Subscribe your email on Canaltech to receive daily updates with the latest news from the world of technology.

At General Motors GM investor day presentations today, the automaker officially confirmed the launch of its next generation hands-free partially automated driving assistance system, Ultra Cruise. Unlike the Super Cruise system that launched in 2017 which only allows use on divided highways, Ultra Cruise is planned to work in 95% of all driving scenarios when it launches in 2023. It is based on a significantly more powerful compute platform and includes more capable sensors including lidar. The biggest changes from Super Cruise are the addition of lidar and a new compute platform that uses current state of the art 5nm process technology. Ultra Cruise will initially be offered on a few premium models eventually growing to most of its lineup over time.

MELBOURNE, July 26 (Reuters Breakingviews) - General Motors' (GM.N) latest journey in autonomous driving has taken it to the courthouse. Late on Friday, the $80 billion carmaker filed a suit accusing Ford Motor (F.N) of trademark infringement after the latter renamed its new driver-assist technology BlueCruise. The problem? GM has a similar system, in operation since 2017, dubbed Super Cruise, while its $30 billion self-driving division read more is called GM Cruise. The word has, of course, formed part of a generic industry term synonymous for decades with the beginnings of autonomous driving - "cruise control". Granted, Super Cruise, and Ford's new features, go beyond just speed control, allowing cars to maintain and change lanes and speed.

The 2021 Cadillac Escalade is available with the latest version of GM's hands-free Super Cruise highway driving aid. Fox News Autos Editor Gary Gastelu lets it take him for a ride. General Motors is developing autonomous vehicles through its Cruise division, which is already testing the vehicles on the streets of San Francisco without a driver behind the wheel, but you won't be able to buy one. The vehicles are intended for use in a ride-hailing service the company is hoping to launch in select cities soon, including Dubai where it recently signed a deal to become the city's exclusive self-driving taxi service. The Cruise Origin is a fully autonomous electric taxi GM plans to begin producing soon.

Ford is determined to counter GM's Super Cruise with its own take on hands-free highway driving, and that means conducting a rather extensive set of real-world tests. The automaker has revealed that it spent last year conducting the "mother of all road trips" for its upcoming BlueCruise system, sending five Mustang Mach-E crossovers and five F-150 trucks on a collective 110,000-mile journey across the US and Canada. The aim, to no one's surprise, was to gauge how BlueCruise handled in a wide range of realistic road and traffic conditions. Ford had already racked up 500,000 miles of development testing, but these were shorter, narrowly-focused dry runs. The road trips helped Ford look for changes in everything from road signs to weather while travelling cross-country.