The Cadillac CT6 provides a lot of firsts for the Cadillac brand itself. It’s the first vehicle to utilize General Motors’ Omega platform, features an exclusive Bose Panaray sound system and much more.
However, Cadillac has detailed another trick the CT6 has up its sleeve. In another industry-first move, the Cadillac CT6 also features a surround-view video recording system.
Cameras are placed in strategic locations throughout the vehicle, with two different modes. The front and rear cameras may be used while the vehicle is in operation, while the surround-view records when the security system is armed, and the vehicle has been tampered with. The system provides a full 360-degree view of the car, and is also used via CUE to aid in parking.
Captured footage is stored in the vehicle’s SD card, in which Cadillac hopes will be helpful to aid in security and collision evidence, should the need arise.
Would you ever think your car would be recording you? Think again.
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Do customers have the option to disable this? I would hope so, because someone who already owns the CT6 and discovered this added “feature” might have a legitimate privacy objection.
Christopher,
After speaking with Cadillac, we were told this to answer your question, as we wondered the same:
“Yes, the system can be fully disabled. You can do that by either turning it off within the CUE system, or by simply removing the SD card in the trunk. In regards to privacy, do note that the system is completely separate from everything else in the vehicle; the information on that card can only be accessed if you have that card.”
Cheers,
-Sean
I don’t see what the big deal. Since this is out in the public opening, there is hardly no privacy whatsoever. Ever heard of public road? There is nothing private about public road for that matter. If it is a private property, that is a different situation but it generally does not matter because a lot of people record stuff on their Android or I-phone nowadays if need to and people may not notice and may not care unless they are paranoid.
Yes it is optional if you want it on or not.
So your friend can still pick up the hookers if he likes! LOL!
Just kidding ……..I hope.
For collision evidence, SD card should be OK – unless this is a rather unlikely case of such a catastrophic collision that SD card gets technically destroyed because of the collision itself, such as vehicle fire consuming the whole vehicle. Overall, unlikely to happen.
In terms of security purposes, however, I’m no expert in the field by no means, but I would guess, SD card may be not enough. Since the vehicle has built-in LTE, then it may make sense to upload the video of the perpetrator, attempting to hijack the vehicle, in real time to some dedicated security server, if LTE connectivity works from the place where vehicle resides at this point. Otherwise, if the attacker succeeds in disarming/hacking the vehicle security and drives away in it, then the local SD card in the trunk won’t help, if the vehicle won’t be caught and returned to the owner/investigated by police – more than that, the hijacker may be technically literate with respect to the features of this current vehicle, so he or she may be actually aware of this SD card presence and after hijacking may extract and destroy this SD card deliberately to get rid of any prosecution evidence.
Of course, there should be an easy way to turn off this suggested LTE video upload at any time at the vehicle owner’s discretion.
This system may be a good idea if you happen to live or shop in areas that are questionable . If you have OnStar and your vehicle gets stolen they can find out where it is , and in the case of an accident your computer in your car can give the info of how fast you were driving .
Or for people like me that aren’t tethered to their phones , google has an app in their store that will give you the info if someone steals your car . Just throw the phone in the glove box or console and your good to go .
Glad to hear you can turn this system off if you want .
These days the minute you leave home you are going to be surrounded by cameras .
How do you activate it? I have the sd card in and hit the recorder and nothing. No one at Cadillac will help me with this. I want to have the recorder on.
See page 250 in the operating manual (2016 version). Red light on camera icon signifies that the recording system is on, and the system stays in record mode until you turn it off. If you need reassurance that the system is operating, take a short drive and then (with car in Park) review what’s been recorded.