[Martinjlm]

Originally Posted by 90503

The novelty and surprise of a red flashing light on the steering wheel will soon become old hat and likely ignored long enough to continue texting...and if you just don't refocus and the steering wheel flashes, what else is there if you continue to ignore it?....Probably not much....The car will crash to teach you a lesson?

Texting and Smartphone use will win out eventually over a crying-wolf flashing steering wheel band of light....Likely the car will continue to drive on it's own long enough safely to finish a task on the smartphone....

I wish them luck, but if they think they can overcome the temptation, habit, and addiction of using a smartphone while driving, and having your hands off the wheel doing nothing...I don't think they realize the creative resourcefulness of the social media, smart phone using drivers...

Remember, Super Cruise is programmed to operate primarily on highways. The car will alert you to take control. If you do not, it will turn on hazards, slow you down, and safely pull over onto the shoulder of the road.

From a review of the system in “The Drive”...

But continue to ignore warnings, and Super Cruise clearly informs the driver that he needs to reassert control, and the system disengages. If the driver fails to heed escalating visual, auditory, and sensory warnings (the latter a vibrating driver's seat) and does not physically take the wheel, the Cadillac will ultimately come to a stop, turn on its hazards, and summon help via its OnStar connection. Hey, you could be having a seizure or something. (Insert Cadillac-Ft. Myer's-retiree joke here.)