Last year, Cadillac did its best to drum up excitement despite the lack of new vehicles. However, it did launch the industry’s first hands-free driving experience with Super Cruise, and it found great praise up north.
The Automotive Journalist Association of Canada named the semi self-driving system its “Best Technical Innovation” for 2018. A panel of nine judges, all of which are technology specialists, dubbed the system worthy of the award due to its simplicity and true hands-free experience.
Super Cruise will handle all functions behind the wheel on interstates in the U.S. and Canada. Unlike other systems, which require the driver to grip the steering wheel from time to time, Super Cruise monitors drivers via a camera to watch eye movement. If it detects the driver isn’t paying attention to the road ahead after too long, it will alert the driver. Drivers must be ready to retake control of the car as well. If the driver is unresponsive, the system will pull the car over and initiate the hazards while dialing OnStar.
Currently, the 2018 Cadillac CT6 is the only vehicle that offers Super Cruise, but it’s likely the technology will arrive with the 2019 XT4, the brand’s first new vehicle in years—and an important entrant for the compact-luxury crossover space.
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Great to see the Canadians pick an American company for the tech award and not the Euro or Japanese car makers. It really goes to show you how advanced GM is nowadays.
Great job GM!
Canadian journalists picked the technology, not the collective citizenry of Canada.
Don’t let the award go to your head.
Furthermore, the AJAC isn’t beholden to pick American automakers for awards. I don’t think you’d like to know who won the AJAC Best Technical Innovation award for 2002, 2012 and 2013….
…because those three year was when GM won an AJAC tech innovation award (Quadrasteer, Voltec, and centre mounted airbag respectively).
Source: http://www.ajac.ca/web/ccoty/previous_byyear.asp
Again, don’t let this one award go to your head or let you think that GM’s struggles with the Europeans and Japanese is over.
The irony is, Supercruise can do very little that ACC and LKA can’t and disengages much less…Supercruise is on one vehicle only and will most likely be also be a top tier options on the XT4…GM should consider offering “C1”, “C2” and “ACC” to every vehicle as a package even on base trims…
Does the system automatically slow down when driving down the interstate when the speed limit changes from say 75 to 65 and then back up to 75?