World Coming to an End...to me anyways...

rwalker28 · Jul 24, 2015

"Cadillac will begin offering advanced “intelligent and connected” vehicle technologies on certain 2017 model year vehicles, General Motors CEO Mary Barra said Sunday during her keynote address at the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) World Congress in Detroit.

In about two years, an all-new 2017 Cadillac vehicle will offer customers an advanced driver assist technology called Super Cruise and in the same timeframe the 2017 Cadillac CTS will be enabled with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology.

“A tide of innovation has invigorated the global auto industry, and we are taking these giant leaps forward to remain a leader of new technology,” Barra said. “We are not doing this for the sake of the technology itself. We’re doing it because it’s what customers around the world want. Through technology and innovation, we will make driving safer.”

Super Cruise, the working name for GM’s automated driving technology, will offer customers a new type of driving experience that includes hands-off lane following, braking and speed control in certain highway driving conditions. The system is designed to increase the comfort of an attentive driver on freeways, both in bumper-to-bumper traffic and on long road trips."

Once I cannot drive my car and I HAVE to have a car that drives itself, I am ready to check out. Imagine a world where insurance companies have access to your car computer to monitor your driving habits, and the car drives itself anyway. Yikes. Glad I am not 20 years old.

ashman · Jul 24, 2015

I just seen a news report where a computer controled car was taken over by hackers and they took over the throttle, brakes, steering, wipers and could even change the radio station and now the cars are being recalled so they can get new serurity codes put in so it won't happen again, no thanks I think I stick to my old Land Rover and old Toyota.

Ashley

ntst8 · Jul 25, 2015

We already have an insurance company offering (= heavily promoting) a smartphone app which monitors your driving and gives you an insurance discount if you drive sufficiently timidly. :twisted:

texasSlick · Jul 25, 2015

Agreed!

Womb to tomb population control .... that's the agenda of the NWO globalists.

Slick

swooshdave · Jul 25, 2015

Considering how bad many drivers are there are many places where self-driving cars would be a benefit.

hobot · Jul 25, 2015

Reflecting back on history from antique machines and no air conditioning or interweb till now with puter controlled monitoring in home power use, who ya contact and zero tolerance traffic behavior reported automatically, those of us baby boomer likely got to live in the best of times ever was or will be. They had just started putting up cameras on all the big intersections in Houston when I escaped to Ozarks w/o a traffic light in two connected counties. My car has no air bag nor ABS brakes thankyou. I would love a self driving car on out of state trips as soon as ya leave Ozarks it pretty poor scenery for 1000 miles in all directions so a nap or movie or some loving making would suit me better than boring machine attention hours on end and could pee out coffee or beer w/o delay.

Political-legal issue is if a robo car gets in a crash who is responsible - the owner of the car on the maker of it?
They are trying to balance out the robo brains to decide whether to let you crash and die rather than strike a wayward school bus that could whiplash many children. Eventually govt will move to make it illegal to drive on your own w/o special testing and license. It will soon enough come to pass if the car picks up smells or hears wrong words it will drive itself straight to jail compound to dish out fines and punishment atuomatically too.

rwalker28 · Jul 26, 2015

Steve, I think more like the other way, if the school bus full of children might crash into a business leader/rich dude, the school bus will be steered off the bridge in to the chasm.

It is not a case of being paranoid, you have to be paranoid enough.

davamb · Jul 26, 2015

rwalker28 said:
"...system is designed to increase the comfort of an attentive driver..."

I, for one, would wish to find a highway with an attentive driver - it would be on the top of my bucket list.

I'd also like to know how you can increase comfort beyond what a modern car offers without decreasing attention. Our local government road safety body, the TAC, exhorts us to buy cars with Auto Emergency Braking (AEB) as it "senses danger and then brakes". Ah yes, but an attentive driver will anticipate danger and may not even need to brake at all. Why are these drivers not concentrating on what they're doing?

ashman · Jul 27, 2015

The women would love it, they could do their makeup, hair, nails etc, hangon they do that now, silly me.

Ashley

rwalker28 · Jul 27, 2015

ashman said:
The women would love it, they could do their makeup, hair, nails etc, hangon they do that now, silly me.

Ashley

Difference would be they are not going 52 mph in the fast lane. At least they would make the speed limit....

ashman · Jul 28, 2015

rwalker28 said:
ashman said:

The women would love it, they could do their makeup, hair, nails etc, hangon they do that now, silly me.

Ashley

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Difference would be they are not going 52 mph in the fast lane. At least they would make the speed limit....

I donno about that as one day we were beside a female driver on the highway in the work truck for a 1/2 hrs she was texting the whole way, sitting on 100ks, she didn't miss a beat with her fingers, we had to turn off but she was still going with her fingers on the highway, she didn't even notice us sitting beside her with all of us watching her, except our driver of course, she had big titties, thats why we were sitting beside her looking down, bloody perverts.

Ashley

davamb · Jul 28, 2015

Apropos of the adjacent gender's driving habits: Riding along one of the local highways one night, pulled up at the lights and noticed the woman beside me holding her 'phone in one hand and yakking away while driving. Slowly shook my head, which she must have seen as she gave it stick to catch up with me at the next set of lights. There she wound down her window and yelled at me "it's in hands-free mode!". I kid you not.

Biscuit · Aug 12, 2015

Just what I need, an f'n smart ass 2017 Caddy sticking in the left lane at 5 over 'cause it thinks "that's OK". The drivers that do that are moronic enough, I don't want to see an f'n car re-enforce their stupidity. Time to get myself one of those Thunderball rocket firing BSA's

frankdamp · Aug 13, 2015

Living in a town with a majority of retirees (including us), self-driving cars might not be a bad idea. One of our neighbors was still driving around town for grocery shopping, etc., when he was 102! Many people in their middle 80's still drive. Local sheltered accommodation buildings have big parking lots, and they're not sized for visitors' cars!

rwalker28 · Aug 13, 2015

I understand that, I just don't want to be economically forced out of driving my vehicles.

frankdamp said:
Living in a town with a majority of retirees (including us), self-driving cars might not be a bad idea. One of our neighbors was still driving around town for grocery shopping, etc., when he was 102! Many people in their middle 80's still drive. Local sheltered accommodation buildings have big parking lots, and they're not sized for visitors' cars!

worntorn · Aug 16, 2015

Well if any segment of the car industry needs a complete autopilot car such that the driver can totally veg out and still be driving, it has to be the segment that buys new Caddies. They are vegging and driving now, except there is no autopilot to take over and make reasonable driving decisions.

I was on a BC Ferry a few years back when an announcement caught my attention " Would the owner of a beige Cadillac license blah blah blah, please return to deck 4, you have left your engine running"

Now lights on is one thing, but waddled off to the Salmon Buffet and left the engine running?

Autopilot can't come too soon for Caddy drivers!

Apologies to all of you Caddy drivers who are still coherent enough to read this. :shock:

Glen

Fast Eddie · Aug 17, 2015

There is a serious side to this auto pilot / aided driving stuff... If one buys such a car, all will probably be well when driving it.

The problems come when you drive a friends car, rental car, new car, etc that doesn't have it and your brain has already forgotten that YOU actually have to DRIVE the thing (a bit like pocket calculators have made most of us forget how to do long multiplication etc)!