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GM is working on an eyes-off, hands-off driving system


Seven years ago, GM became the first automaker to offer hands-free driving when it rolled out its Super Cruise advanced driver assistance system. Now,

“Super Cruise, I think, is an industry-leading L2 solution for hands off, eyes on,” Dave Richardson, Senior Vice President of Software and Services Engineering at GM, told TechCrunch in a wide-ranging interview. Super Cruise uses a combination of lidar map data, high-precision GPS, cameras and radar sensors, as well as a driver-attention system, which monitors the person behind the wheel to ensure they’re watching the road. While Super Cruise was the industry’s first true hands-free ADAS on the market when it launched in 2017, GM wasn’t viewed as a dominant player because it severely limited access to the system.

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