GM Brings Powerful New Compute Architecture to Ultra Cruise to Help Enable Door-to-Door Hands-Free Driving

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• GM shares new details of Ultra Cruise ADAS that will debut on $300K Cadillac Celestiq
• You can power your home for 21 days with a Chevy Silverado EV and GM’s new bidirectional charger
• Ultra Cruise will ultimately enable door-to-door hands-free driving on all public paved roads in the U.S. and Canada
• GM reveals Ultra Cruise ‘hands-free’ system that covers ‘95 percent’ of driving scenarios
• GM Is Not Cancelling Ultra Cruise, Just Merging It With Super Cruise
• GM Brings Powerful New Compute Architecture to Ultra Cruise to Help Enable Door-to-Door Hands-Free Driving

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GM shares new details of Ultra Cruise ADAS that will debut on $300K Cadillac Celestiq

Along the way check out bohemian Berlin and the Baltic beaches in Estonia and Lithuania. Finally, venture to the Arctic to bathe in the Blue Lagoon’s geothermal waters, goggle at drifting icebergs in Greenland, before watching humpback whales in Newfoundland’s icy waves. Next comes a hefty cultural fix in the Big Apple, a final beach blast in Bermuda and the Bahamas, before docking in Miami where the Ultimate World Cruise comes to a close. The federal government is paying more attention to ADAS, recently announcing that automakers would be required to report incidents involving driver assistance and autonomous systems within one day of learning of a crash. Super Cruise, which debuted in 2017 in the Cadillac CT6 sedan, is capable of completely hands-free driving across more than 200,000 miles of divided highway across North America.

You can power your home for 21 days with a Chevy Silverado EV and GM’s new bidirectional charger

Several new ships have spiced up the luxury market in the past couple of years, with Silversea adding two (one an expedition vessel and the other a 540-passenger palace) and Seabourn adding three sisters carrying 450 passengers apiece. All the luxe lines in this group have also spent millions refurbishing their older ships, making sure they can compete with the demand for "new new new" in today's marketplace. If you've got taste, tend to avoid the mass market, and have lots and lots of money, then these are the cruise lines for you. Most people attracted to these types of cruises are wealthy, relatively or actually sophisticated, and social. They're well traveled if not necessarily adventurous, tend to stick to five-star experiences, and don't blink at paying top dollar to be pampered -- which is exactly what they get here.

GM is getting rid of “Ultra Cruise” branding as it reevaluates its ADAS program - The Verge

GM is getting rid of “Ultra Cruise” branding as it reevaluates its ADAS program.

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Ultra Cruise will ultimately enable door-to-door hands-free driving on all public paved roads in the U.S. and Canada

Spain’s all about its seafood superstar paella, and top-notch tapas - bite-size appetisers such Pa amb Tomaquet (toasted bread topped with tomatoes, salt and olive oil). Soak up cafe culture in Barcelona, and pay homage to fresh produce at the storied Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria. Lisbon’s pasteis de nata - cinnamon-dusted egg custard tarts - are legendary as are Porto’s wines. Get shucking in oyster capital Vigo, do classic French fine dining along the Seine and sample escargots - snails - if you dare in Paris. In Southampton opt for classic fish and chips and a proper English cup of tea, indulge in moules frites - mussels with fries - in Bruges, while in Morocco savour mint tea and tagine, a traditional spiced meat stew.

GM reveals Ultra Cruise ‘hands-free’ system that covers ‘95 percent’ of driving scenarios

"GM is not scaling back its advanced driver assistance (ADAS) programs," GM spokesperson Aimee Ridella told InsideEVs today. "We have reallocated our ADAS-focused resources to bring even more capability to Super Cruise under one recognizable consumer brand." GM’s fundamental strategy for all ADAS features, including Ultra Cruise, is safely deploying these technologies. A deep knowledge of what Ultra Cruise is capable of, along with the detailed picture provided by its sensors, will help us understand when Ultra Cruise can be engaged and when to hand control back to the driver. We believe consistent, clear operation can help build drivers’ confidence in Ultra Cruise.

Even just a highway-assistance system like Super Cruise is a godsend on the Interstate, and a more capable version of that will doubtlessly allow for more relaxed driving in a multitude of otherwise stressful scenarios like traffic, long trips, and more. Details of the system beyond its capabilities and what cars it will be available on were provided as well. It seems like some form of an advanced head-up display will sit in front of the driver to present vital statistics to them. Ditman gave the example of a roundabout as a type of complex road condition that the ADAS will not be able to navigate. A light bar in the steering wheel will communicate to the driver when they need to control, sending signals through escalating lights and haptic feedback. When people have been disconnected from driving for a longer period of time, they may overreact when suddenly taking control in an emergency situation.

GM Is Not Cancelling Ultra Cruise, Just Merging It With Super Cruise - InsideEVs

GM Is Not Cancelling Ultra Cruise, Just Merging It With Super Cruise.

Posted: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

GM Brings Powerful New Compute Architecture to Ultra Cruise to Help Enable Door-to-Door Hands-Free Driving

It's unclear if the app or the Ultra Cruise system itself will require a subscription to access. Crystal Cruises was first to have submersibles on board, but when the troubled company’s small ships were sold to other cruise lines, they were removed. Now only the expedition ships of Scenic, Seabourn and Viking (each currently has two) carry submersibles.

Only premium GM EVs will get Ultra Cruise capabilities

Ultra Cruise builds upon the capabilities of Super Cruise and allows the company to offer Super Cruise on more mainstream vehicles and reserve Ultra Cruise capabilities for premium entries. In its first major update since announcing Ultra Cruise in late 2021, the automaker outlined several of the sensors that will power the driver-assist system, including cameras, short- and long-range radar, and a lidar sensor. The vehicles will also come with an all-new computer to process the data input from the sensors, which the automaker previously indicated would include Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Ride Platform. Scandinavia’s distinct landscapes - from Denmark’s color-popping Nyhavn, to Norway’s spellbinding fjords and Sweden’s picturesque medieval towns - have an enormous amount of shared history.

“We believe that the combination of different sensors, or sensor fusion, leads to the most robust hands-free driver-assist system for our customers,” said Parks. Smart diagnostic and learning systems automatically identify scenarios where Ultra Cruise needs upgrading, triggering data recordings in vehicles equipped with the service. These recordings will then be processed through GM’s back office data ecosystem for continuous improvement of the system. Submersibles on cruise ships, while glamorous and providing guests with unbeatable boasting rights, do have their downsides, not least the cost of a ride, which ranges up to $US999 ($1527). In many ways, it’s attitude, says Jason Flesher, expedition operations director for the luxury vessels.

Lidar, a key ingredient in autonomous driving, is a laser sensor that uses near-infrared light to detect the shapes of objects. This helps autonomous vehicles “see” other objects on the road, like cars, pedestrians, and cyclists, all without the help of GPS or a network connection. It is recommended that you download your current lightbox contents and clear its assets to add more. The primary HMI in Ultra Cruise-equipped vehicles, the Ultra Cruise Dynamic Display, is a freeform display directly in the driver’s line of sight. Ultra Cruise is powered by a 5-nanometer, scalable compute architecture future-proofed through the Ultifi software platform and Vehicle Intelligence Platform.

GM’s first-generation advanced driver-assist system (ADAS), Super Cruise, has been praised as a safer, more capable version of Tesla’s Autopilot, thanks to its camera-based driver monitoring system that ensures drivers keep their eyes on the road. GM says Super Cruise will “co-exist” with Ultra Cruise, with the former available in more “mainstream” vehicles, while the latter is reserved for GM’s luxury models. GM wouldn’t comment on the price customers will be expected to pay to add Ultra Cruise as an option on their vehicles. At launch in 2023, Ultra Cruise will cover 2 million miles of roads in the US and Canada, but the automaker has quick plans to add another 1.4 million miles' worth of roads. And when this happens, GM plans for a big strategy shift in which vehicles offer either Super Cruise or Ultra Cruise.

But it's not walking away from the goal of more advanced automated driving, just leaning into a brand that most people know better anyway. Before we all get too excited, it's worth noting that Super Cruise is facing setbacks due to the chip shortage and this new system won't be available on lower-end vehicles in GM's lineup. Indeed, Super Cruise will likely be the norm for vehicles wearing Chevy's Bowtie like the Bolt EV and electric Silverado. Designed around a combination of input from different sensors, cameras, radars and LiDAR, Ultra Cruise can generate accurate, 360-degree representations of the environment with redundancies in critical areas.

Finally, in Amsterdam, pay a moving visit to the annex where Jewish teenager Anne Frank hid during WW II. The final leg on the Ultimate World Cruise, the Europe & Beyond segment is a 63-night extravaganza of a vacation, which sets sail from Barcelona, a city defined by Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família. Heading south to Valencia and Cartagena, cruise along the Strait of Gibraltar for a taste of North Africa in Casablanca and Agadir. Sweeping down the Atlantic, trave to Lisbon - a sea of red roofs and azujelo tiles - before heading north to museum-hop in Galicia’s largest city, Vigo.

The company also works with suppliers who are experts in their relative spaces and integrates their sensing technologies with its homegrown software to bring Ultra Cruise to life. Super Cruise will handle hands-free highway driving; Ultra Cruise, GM promises, will be onboard to tackle hands-free driving in 95% of all scenarios. The 10-deck Seabourn Pursuit, Seabourn's newest vessel, offers an intimate, yacht-like ambiance with 132 balcony suites. Seabourn, renowned for its ultra-luxury expedition cruises, has designated the Wunambal Gaambera Traditional Owners as godparents of Seabourn Pursuit, its latest purpose-built expedition ship.

Cruising on to St John’s, get to know the fishing villages and folk music in Newfoundland before hitting the Big Apple and visiting Bermuda’s Royal Naval Dockyard. While the high-end lines have not been immune to the economic marketplace and have adjusted their individual pricing policies and programs to meet the times, they'll still cost lots more than your typical mainstream cruise. Expect to pay at least $2,000 per person for a week in the Caribbean, and easily twice that or more if you opt for a large suite or cruise during the busiest times of the year. Balancing the high fares is the fact that all the lines in this group include a lot of extras in their rates.