Cadillac Takes The 2018 Cadillac CT6 Coast-To-Coast For Self-Driving Super Cruise Road Trip
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Cadillac kicked off a milestone this week as a fleet of 2018 Cadillac CT6 sedans began to cross the United States equipped with Super Cruise, General Motors’ first self-driving car technology.
Media, GM Authority included, was invited to participate in various legs of the journey, which will span 16 states from the east to west coast of the country. Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee; Dallas, Texas; Santa Fe, New Mexico and Phoenix, Arizona, will all see pitstops by the semi self-driving CT6s.
In total, the 2018 Cadillac CT6 sedans will cover 130,000 miles, and most will be done completely hands-free across various interstates and freeways.
“Cadillac is setting new industry standards with ground-breaking driver assistance technologies like Super Cruise, the world’s first true hands-free driving system for the freeway,” said Johan de Nysschen, Cadillac president. “We are excited to bring Super Cruise, a true testament to Cadillac’s innovative spirit and technical capability, on its first-ever hands-free drive on freeways from coast to coast.”
The 2018 Cadillac CT6 in Platinum trim will arrive standard with Super Cruise, but the system will be a $5,000 option on the Cadillac CT6’s Premium Luxury trim. A CT6 Platinum with Super Cruise will ring in at $85,290, while a CT6 Premium Luxury with the Super Cruise option will cost $71,300 when they both go on sale this fall.
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I hope they video the voyage and provide regular updates on YouTube, or Instagram – even e-mail/Twitter blasts as it happens.
Y’know – marketing … it’d be nice to witness updates in real-time. Or realish time. I’d like to see how it unfolds …
Sorry, there are parts of this I still find very unsafe. I know automakers have wanted to install this since 1959. What possessed the engineers to develop it?
Lane Keep is Outstanding. Automatic Braking is Wonderful as long as it is summer. I would not want it to come on at anytime 6 months of the year when the roads are covered in snow and ice.
Is there a provision that would stop it from functioning under 36 degrees F?
I am afraid in its present form, some idiot will be stoned out of his mind, and be rammed by a truck, and the resulting lawsuit will set new records.
Dear Mr. de Nysschen, I hope that your Cadillac CT6 Super Cruise trip across the US is 100% successful and when it is, I sincerely hope that you will not keep it a secret as you did when the 2014 CTS was awarded Motor Trend’s Car of the Year.
In 2014 The Cadillac CTS competed head to head with the Mercedes E-Class and BMW 5 Series and won COY. I believe that was a tremendous accomplishment, but the only people who knew about it were those of us who read Motor Trend Magazine. Not even the dealership, where I bought my 2014 CTS, was aware. Shame on you, Mr. Ellinhaus and your advertising agency. Please don’t make the same mistake again.
You should be writing to Cadillac, not to GM Authority.
gm advertising is the worst representing all divisions –don’t these marketing experts see other company advertisement s or are all their heads in the sand
As much as this is an important milestone in automotive history and especially for Cadillac, I just can’t see spending that kind of money on a vehicle of any make/model that I’m not 100% responsible for guiding safely down the road. Do you not want to “drive” your car or do you just want to rent a luxo bus/taxi ? This whole hands free driving thing just escapes me. Why bother to own a “drivers car” if you won’t even be bothered to step on the gas or turn the wheel ? Might as well ride a washing machine down the road.
Your comment just proves the Advertising is off base.
No desire to own it.
Right on! I have been saying this ever since autonomous cars started hitting the “media”. “Hey Charlie, how would you like to spend $60,000 to have a robot or some guy at Google remotely drive you around town, so you don’t have to? Of course, you could always spend $20 for a taxi, Uber or a bus to do the same thing!” It’s as if a bunch of teenagers with their heads in their phones got together with Silicon Valley to take over the automobile industry. Thanks Elon Musk! Welcome to the future of the automobile where you pay big monthly lease fees, but you don’t control where you go or how you get there.
Somebody’s brother in law must be working at that company, or purchasing is getting a huge kickback. No one in their right mind would approve the advertising that has come out of them for the last few years.
If you have no idea what to do, give the job to a group of know nothing grade school students, and they would get it done, and probably a lot better.
Like it or not, two paradigm shifts in the automotive world (including the trucking industry) are rapidly approaching: Autonomous driving and a decline in gasoline & diesel engines.
As the technology matures and more owners adopt it, the final Big Push to implement autonomous driving on a mandatory basis will occur when a marked decline in automotive fatalities demonstrates its value. The monetary savings to society due to reduced injuries and deaths will seal the deal. These will be the first major wave of industrial robots people deal with in their personal lives. A fully autonomously driving vehicle is nothing more than a robot. The skill-based driving experience that has methodically evolved over the last one hundred years will have little relevance.
Autonomous vehicles will not speed or cut each other off. They will come to a complete stop at stop signs and won’t run red lights, nor will they be able to flee pursuing LEOs, or attempt to run over ex-wives and husbands. Handling characteristics will be supplanted by occupant comfort and convenience.
Subsequently, anyone wanting to drive manually will pay exorbitant insurance premiums for the privilege.
–On the other hand, DUI’s will be a thing of the past.
These are the good old days folks. . .
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Only if you guys force it on us.
I for one doubt it.
Not sure who “you guys” refers to, but unless you/we can afford the expected elevated insurance premiums, fully-autonomous driving will be forced on all of us, just like many other “innovations” or procedures created with safety in mind, aimed at the weakest links in society’s chain. The rest of us pay for the behavior (and subsequent consequences) of the stupid people.
Some people are lousy drivers, even on a good day. Cars that drive themselves will eliminate them from the equation, along with the fun associated with spirited driving for the rest of us who enjoy doing so.
I Concede. You are right, Too many bad drivers out there, Schools took Drivers Training out to save money. They added Sex Education.
We would have been better served keeping drivers Ed.
If it is not for young people driving with their heads up a dirty smelly place, many of the others have reaction times of a 3 toed sloth.
So Suzie can be texting and putting on make up while carrying on an animated conversation, and still get to her destination without running off the road.
Perhaps a good thing.
I reconsider my position.
Back in 1980, Rush released a song about a car called Red Barchetta from the Album Moving Pictures. 37 years later is is becoming closer to reality….
Too bad Rush has always sucked.