Ford recently spilled the beans on many of its upcoming vehicles and services, which includes “Co-Pilot360,” the automaker’s suite of active safety technology. And it will be standard on almost all new vehicles starting with the 2019 Edge crossover.
Meanwhile, the Blue Oval called out Chevrolet and other rivals over their lack of standard active-safety technology. In a supplied chart, Ford showed that Chevy only offers a standard rearview camera. Co-Pilot360 will include Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) with pedestrian-detection, Blind Spot Information System (BLIS) with cross-traffic alert, a lane-keeping system, rear backup camera and automatic high-beams.
Ford will also add reverse braking assist with automatic braking to the suite of systems in the near future, which can help avoid rearward crashes and minimize their impact. GM knows a thing or two about the system; the 2018 Cadillac XT5 offers the technology, and it was ranked highest by the Insurance Institue for Highway Safety (IIHS).
Chevrolet has not announced its own standard active safety technologies, but we have a feeling such an announcement is coming. Other rivals, such as Toyota and Honda, moved to make similar systems standard with new vehicles as well.
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Disclaimer. GM offers all this in most of their vehicles just not standard on base models. My Acadia has all these and more.
Ford is also marketing their 180 degree camera when I have 360. They are all going to the same place and marketing is taking advantage of just being the first in some models at some levels of trim.
The dirt is in the details.
You said GM offers this, again, Ford is not targeting GM or the GM Acadia you have here. Ford is putting a target directly on their rival Chevrolet. I’ve said it before, this is a Ford vs Chevy world. Not Ford vs GM… Ford’s intent is to destroy Chevrolet. It’s really simple, take down Chevy, GM goes with it. GM putting a glass ceiling on Chevrolet and withholding features not only damages Chevrolet, it damages GM.
Hampering one brand in order to justify keeping and propping up another is Not good business. This isn’t 1945.
Matt, you nailed it.
someone I know wanted the Malibu, but the car not offering AWD was a deal breaker. he then shopped Ford Fusion and Subaru Legacy. He did kick around the idea of a Buick Regal.
well he bought the Ford Fusion.
That is the issue, in fact to get AEB on almost any GM vehicle, you need the TOP trim, and to add another safety package…Only then if the GM vehicle has ACC as an available option, (most do not), can ACC be added…
Rearview camera is still being championed as a standard safety feature, it was made mandatory and there were automakers who still didn’t offer until the year it was mandated…
While I understand your point, I will say that I’m pretty disappointed that the MY 2018 Silverado LT that i recently leased did not come equipped with blind spot mirror detection or the back-up “beep” that is pretty much industry standard at this point, especially on a mid-grade trim. It’s a 19 ft truck and is over 7 feet high. It’s hard to judge when maneuvering and those features would be much appreciated.
” GM offers all this in most of their vehicles just not standard on base models.”
… and that would be the point of the article?
Hopefully these will still work when the steering wheel falls off in your hands……
https://interestingengineering.com/ford-issues-recall-for-14-million-cars-because-their-steering-wheels-might-come-loose
I’ll take a Vegas bet that by years end, GM will announced a package and schedule/timeline of when they’re making this standard…Only questions are when, will it be MY20, MY21 or MY22? And what will GM call it? Most likely something tied into onstar…
It is already planned. Like I stated clearly above they all will have it. Ford is only the first one taking marketing advantage of it while it last.
Most of the models have it on the high trim and they only need to make a small change to add it to the others.
If any major changes are needed it will come at replacement or refresh.
It is the same way we have seen other systems go. Not a major controversy.
It is just another game of I raise and they call.
All these systems operate on optical and bumper sensors that most models either have standard or optional now at GM accept for the lowest examples. They just need to add it to the lower option packages.
Many are also getting the new Rear View mirrors that have a screen or mirror in it. I have seen it in Cadillac’s and even in two Chevys I have driven recently.
This is not like they have to go back to the drawing boards. Besides most are already planned to get these as it is.
The future will hold much more for LIDAR and RADAR. GM just invest heavily in Strobe and while intended for Autonomous cars it will also be used in safety systems.
GM is 5 years ahead production wise on what they are going to do not two weeks.
It’s inevitable GM will offer all this stuff standard, Toyota already does, Honda has it on some otherwise its an optional stand alone package…Because GM hasn’t announced any safety packages, GM now looks “exposed” by their chief rival, Ford which will look even worse if GM comes out and announces their standard safety will be available on most MY2020 vehicles…Toyota was the first to do this and Honda does offer this standard on some vehicles but the ones they don’t they offer it as a stand alone option on all trims…
F150, Mustang and almost all Toyotas (86 is an exception) offer active safety with ACC, GM is very limited to who it even offers top-trim ACC to in its vehicles…GM has a lot of catching up to do but they’re on the right track…
GM did sign a pact that if AEB wasn’t made into a regulation, they would make it standard for all light duty vehicles for MY22…You have to wonder if the original plan was to rollout supercruise (which was delayed) to all GM vehicles sooner…Now we have Cruise Automation which throws another wrench into this whole thing…
Not that I’m complaining personally, but consumers shouldn’t be surprised by the rising prices of vehicles. These new technologies save lives, for sure, but they aren’t free to develop or implement…
i have been saying for a long time GM need to fix their trim levels –i still thing it would be better for the customer to pick their options to avoid packages that have items they do not want .
No company does, they all do packages for cost savings and production simplicity. You won’t see that again in main stream vehicles, so it isn’t just a GM thing. Sucks because the one luxury item I would want (adaptive cruise) can usually only be optioned on top trims with leather and big wheels. Only hope is Toyota includes that in their safety system so hopefully GM does that and I can get a mid level vehicle with that feature (and dual climate for the lady).
“Ford will also add reverse braking assist with automatic braking”. If Ford adds “Parking Assist” then can they offer a model that can turn, shift, accelerate, and stop by itself? The driver can leave the model near a parking space and it will move and park by itself. Later the owner can have that same model extract from the parking space and return to the driver by itself.
No valets needed!
lol…Would be nice…Spoiler alert, most people can’t handle multiple slow moving obstacles on their backup camera screen while others see a fast moving bouncing ball and they’ll literally do absolutely anything other than what they’re supposed to do which is to step on the brakes…No matter how smart we are (or think we are) there’s always someone who isn’t as smart, we should be happy that they have AEB…
Much of this was inspired by Fords financial issues.
Sales on many models have been stagnate and stock are in the tank.
This is a good way to try to jump start sales and advance the image. New models will help but they really need to work on cost. Till they get cost under control stocks will be hurting.
How do automatic High Beams work?