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GM is Firing another shot in the self-driving wars.
In 2028, the automaker announced today that it will introduce what it calls a “farsighted” drive system on the Cadillac Escalade IQ electric vehicle. In practical terms, this means that a driver navigating approved and mapped highways will be able to do anything they want behind the wheel. Grab a snack, answer emails, catch up on their shows, and turn around to yell at the kids in the back. Even sleep, perhaps, provided they wake up by the time they reach the exit ramp. (If they don’t, the car will find a safe place to stop, GM says.)
The new system represents a collaboration between the team responsible for GM“Eight years old Super cruisean advanced driver-assistance system that the automaker described today as “hands-free” on some highways, and cruisea subsidiary of robotaxi that it once competed with Waymo Before GM And cut its funding in 2024. That could also put the Detroit automaker in competition with other automakers — including Toyota and Tesla — who are trying to bring a version of self-driving systems to cars owned by personally drivers.
Unlike Tesla’s full self-driving (supervision) system, which… It depends on the cameras alone To make decisions, GM’s new Eye Lift feature will use lidar, radar and cameras. It will indicate when a driver is expected to pay attention again through a combination of tactile, audible and visual alerts, says Sterling Anderson, GM’s executive vice president of global products and chief product officer. (He was a co-founder of self-driving trucking company Aurora, and played a key role in building Tesla’s Autopilot assistance system.) “If the past few decades have taught us anything, it’s that you can’t expect an inattentive driver to be ready to take over at any moment. You simply can’t,” he says.
The Look Away system announcement was one of a raft of AI-adjacent reveals from General Motors on Wednesday, the latest sign that automakers are gearing up to compete over who can best fit the buzzy technology on the wheels. GM says its cars will come next year with… Google Gemini Integrate chatbots that should be able to help drivers more naturally request that their car help them, for example, navigate to a coffee shop near work. At some point in the future, GM says, it will offer a tailored AI that will retain drivers’ personal preferences — perhaps their favorite driving music, temperature, or mirror position — and might warn them, for example, when their car needs maintenance. All of this will be enabled by a new central computing platform, which will also debut in 2028.
