"The system won’t let the driver completely tune out. It monitors the driver’s face for open eyes and to make sure you look out the windshield reasonably frequently — no napping or reading on your iPhone behind the wheel.."
So what's the point? If you've got to pay attention, then......PAY ATTENTION and you may as well DRIVE!
"If the driver completely ignores Super Cruise when it tries to get his or her attention, the system decides there’s been a medical emergency, slows to a stop, turns on the emergency flashers and tells GM’s OnStar service to call emergency vehicles. Coming to a stop in the middle of a highway is less than ideal,...."
No, really? :roll: Can you imagine people barreling along at 75 or 80 with a car at a dead stop in their lane? Sure, you should be in control of your vehicle and aware at all times but I can imagine dozens of Caddy's with Super Cruise stopped on the Interstates when their drivers fall asleep in the middle of the night. Hey Jon, watch out for them!
"Super Cruise doesn’t recognize traffic cones, but it can follow lane markings through some detours in construction zones."
Ok, what about the others?
"It’s also blind to semis carrying wide loads that extend outside their lane, but keeps the car centered in its lane when passing normal-sized vehicles." :shock:
Nah, you never see that on the highway! :roll:
Call me a cynic but I think that a self-driving vehicle is a solution looking for a problem. They'll NEVER be able to program a system that takes into account all the possible scenarios of driving and select the correct reaction. A human can't do that ALL the time. That's part of the reason we have accidents. (Granted, in many cases, accidents are caused by actions that an autonomous vehicle would NOT do.)
Plus, paying attention means being alert and ready for the unexpected. If you're relaxing and cruising along and the system suddenly flashes and says "HERE'S THE WHEEL", you'll first have to become alert, figure out WHY you've got the con, then react in the proper manner. Meanwhile, you've just crashed into that piece of debris that flew off a truck or tire that came over the median or .... (insert your situation).
The system most certainly wont work in snowy or icy conditions so once we get to fully autonomous vehicles we'll have a bunch of drivers who are not used to actually driving in GOOD conditions let alone POOR conditions. It'll be like having roads full of brand new teen-age drivers who are new to to actually controlling the vehicle.
It's the millenials pushing for this, along with shill reporters like Mark Phelan who are beholden to the auto industry and wouldn't dare write a negative comment. If they did, the execs wouldn't return their calls and they wouldn't get to test drive all the fancy new cars ahead of everyone else.
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