Designed as a driver assist system, the automated vehicle can accommodate multiple driving scenarios.
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The seats are part of the Cadillac Driver Awareness and Driver Assist packages, a combination of active safety systems designed to help drivers avoid crashes.
Many of the building block technologies for Super Cruise are already available on the all-new 2013 Cadillac XTS and ATS luxury sedans, as part of the available Driver Assist Package.
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The Driver Assist package, debuting now, goes a step further by intervening to avoid a crash through its Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Collision Preparation, and Front and Rear Automatic Braking systems.
Extras: Cold weather package, driver assist package, luxury seating package, premium sound package, 20 inch wheel with performance tires, active roll stabilization, instrument panel with leather, ceramic controls, and BMW apps.
Ford's outfitted the Fusion Energi with a dizzying array of driver-assist tech, including a lane-keeping system, adaptive cruise control, driver alert system, active park assist, rear camera, blind-spot indicator system with cross-traffic alert and pull-drift compensation (phew).
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Toyota said this week it plans to launch a similar driver-assist program on certain models beginning this summer.
This glacial rate of advance might give us time to settle some of the arguments that have begun to brew over the limits of driver-assist technologies -- the point at which the car, having sniffed out a veritable wealth of information about the world around it, switches (perhaps unbidden) to autopilot.
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Some of these features will merely assist the driver by, for example, pointing out a patch of black ice around the next bend.
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For example, quite a few involve "lane assist" features that starkly indicate the options when coming to a fork in the road so that the driver avoids having to stare at the screen too long to figure out the right path.
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