i30 Owners Club
OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => Motoring => Topic started by: eye30 on September 09, 2014, 16:36:42
-
General Motors has said that in two years it will offer cars that talk to each other and can almost drive themselves at highway speeds.
The company said the semi-autonomous freeway system called Super Cruise will be an option on a new Cadillac that goes on sale in the summer of 2016. The company also plans to put vehicle-to-vehicle transmitters and receivers on all Cadillac CTS models during the same time-frame.
GM CEO Mary Barra said the system would allow you to drive long distances with the car doing much of the work. But GM said it is working on a system to make sure that drivers still pay attention.
"Super Cruise is designed to give the driver the ability of hands-free driving when the system determines it is safe to do so,
:link: GM to offer talking cars by 2016 - BT (http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/motoring/motoringnews/gm-to-offer-talking-cars-by-2016-11363931603926)