Forget those Tesla crashes: GM says you can trust its autonomous vehicles

GeneralMotors is racing toelectrify its vast lineup of vehicles in a concerted effort to surpassTesla as the No. 1 seller of EV in the world. It is competing withTesla on other fronts.

GM feels that it has an advantage. The coverage area of Super Cruise will be doubled to 400,000 miles later this year. Ultra Cruise will cover 95 percent of driving tasks and will be unveiled next year. The Cruise division is currently picking up and dropping off passengers in San Francisco as part of the city's first real commercial self-drive ride-sharing service.

Public perception of driver assist technology is not great. They conclude that self-driving cars are too dangerous for public use after the death of a woman in a self-driving car.

GM is trying to put more self-driving and partially automated cars on the road. In addition to stories in the media, the company is counting on an education campaign to help consumers understand the differences between a Super Cruise-equipped Chevy pickup truck and a fully autonomously Cruise Origin, which is set to hit the road as soon as next year.

Mark Reuss, the president of GM, wrote a piece about the company's approach to safety, both with regard to its advanced driver-assist systems like Super Cruise and Ultra Cruise. There are a few new details about the technology that will comprise the Ultra Cruise system, like a lidar sensor "behind the windshield" and a new smartphone app that will be viewable from inside the parked vehicle.

A recent survey shows that only 26 percent of Americans think that self-driving cars are a good idea, while 44 percent think the opposite.

GM is aware of the mountain it will need to climb in order to convince its customers that partially and fully self driving vehicles can be a benefit to society The company wants to beat its competitors to market by getting more AVs on the road.

Do you want things to go quicker? In an interview with The Verge, the chief engineer of self-drive vehicles at GM stated that he would. There is a lot of money to be made when you look at the total addressable market. We would like to capture that market.

It is more difficult to address the skepticism that exists towards this technology due to the fact that there is a lot of confusion about the differences between the two.

The driver is still expected to control their vehicle even though Super Cruise is not a fully functioning self driving vehicle. We are very clear about what is fully self-sufficient and who is responsible for it.

Some companies don't care about educating people about the differences between advanced driver- assist systems and conventional driver assistance systems. Critics say that the act of making misleading claims about the capabilities of a vehicle's technology is a prime example of "autonowash", the act of making misleading claims about the capabilities of a vehicle's technology.

The National Safety Council, along with a coalition of advocacy groups, recently released a set of new recommendations for universal terms for ADAS features in order to reduce driver confusion.

GM is still fully committed to the technology despite the fact that the timelines for the mass adoption of self driving vehicles seem to stretch more into the future. Mary Barra, the company's CEO, said earlier this year that GM would sell audiovisuals for personal use by the middle of the decade, upending expectations that the technology would only be suitable for commercial use.

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It will be very difficult to get there. Most of the time it will be the fault of a human driver when a car crashes, but sometimes it will be the other way around. A federal investigation was launched after a driver crashed into a Cruise vehicle in San Francisco and injured people.

Over the past year, there have been a number of crashes. There have been at least 130 crashes involving vehicles with automated driving systems, 23 of which were reported by Cruise.

It may seem like self-driving cars are only available to the rich and famous in a few cities and are stuck in small neighborhoods.

The technology has been very slow in making progress. Cruise needs to be certain that the vehicles can drive safely before they commit to expanding their territory. They want to be fast, but they know that moving too fast can cause disaster.

We don't want to be in the past. We want to be first but we also want to be the safest.

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