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VICTORIA NEWS • OAK BAY NEWS • SAANICH NEWS • GOLDSTREAM NEWS GAZETTE • PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW - Friday, April 27, 2012
Self-driving car in Cadillac’s future ‘Super Cruise’ technology could be ready by mid-decade METROLAND MEDIA WHEELSTALK.COM
Cadillac is road testing a semi-autonomous technology it calls “Super Cruise” that is capable of fully automatic steering, braking and lanecentering in highway driving under certain optimal conditions. The system could be ready for production vehicles by mid-decade. Super Cruise is designed to ease the driver’s workload on the freeway, in both bumper-to-bumper traffic and on long road trips by relying on a fusion of radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras and GPS map data. Many of the building block technologies for Super Cruise are already available on the all-new 2013 Cadillac XTS and ATS luxury sedans, as part of the available Driver Assist Package. It is the first Cadillac system to use sensor fusion to provide 360 degrees of crash risk detection and enhanced driver assist features, including: • Rear Automatic Braking • Full-Speed Range Adaptive Cruise Control • Intelligent Brake Assist • Forward Collision Alert • Safety Alert Seat • Automatic Collision Preparation • Lane Departure Warning • Side Blind Zone Alert • Rear Cross Traffic Alert • Adaptive Forward Lighting • Rear Vision Camera With Dynamic Guidelines • Head Up Display The key to delivering semi-autonomous capability will be the integration of lane-centering technology that relies on forward-looking cameras to detect lane markings and GPS map data to detect curves and other road characteristics. Even when semi-autonomous driving capability is available on vehicles, the system will have operational limitations based on external factors such as weather and visibility of lane markings. When reliable data is unavailable, the driver will need to steer.
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