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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
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.)
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Sorry, Martin. I believe the chief engineer in his interview for this disagrees.
The car stops in the lane, does
not pull over to the shoulder, (or ever change lanes on it's own for that matter)….As a consolation prize for the rest of the motorists near this car, it turns on the hazards. Hardly a sure fire way to guarantee there won't be a horrific crash between a dead-stopped vehicle in the midst of high speed traffic.
I think this also points out how easily misunderstood and unsafe Super-Cruise can actually be. Maybe they'll improve it to pull over at some point....perhaps after a few dozen unnecessary traffic fatalities caused by Cadillac.