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The 2025 Buick Enclave blends technology and convenience with ease. It introduces Super Cruise, Buick’s first hands-free driving technology, allowing for automated lane changes and adaptive cruise control on compatible roads. This system pairs with Adaptive Cruise Control to maintain a safe distance from the vehicle ahead. The Enclave boasts an impressive 30-inch diagonal display, seamlessly integrating the Driver Information Center and infotainment screen into a sleek, curved glass panel for a truly modern and elegant look. Google built-in offers personalized navigation, real-time data, and hands-free assistance, while wireless smartphone charging and advanced noise-reduction technologies ensure a serene and clutter-free ride.

https://landroverlondon.wordpress.com/2024/10/24/upcoming-2025-buick-enclave-what-to-expect/

One of the most exciting additions to the 2025 models is GM’s Super Cruise hands-free driving assistance system. This cutting-edge feature is expected to set Chevrolet apart from competitors, as the demand for advanced driver-assistance systems continues to grow. Super Cruise brings a new level of convenience and safety, appealing to tech-savvy consumers who value innovation.

https://www.powernationtv.com/post/chevy-lead-suv-category-with-updates

How many people are using Ford BlueCruise?

As of 2024, Ford BlueCruise users have collectively driven hundreds of thousands of hours using this hands-free technology. The adoption rates show that more and more drivers are getting comfortable with relying on BlueCruise for a significant portion of their driving.

Here’s a breakdown of BlueCruise usage by state and hours driven:

Washington, California, Michigan, Arizona, Texas, Ohio, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida are the top states for BlueCruise adoption. In these states, drivers have logged between 40,000 and 220,000 hours of hands-free driving.

In six other states, drivers have logged between 30,000 and 40,000 hours using BlueCruise.

In the rest of the country, hands-free driving hours fall below 30,000, but the numbers are still growing.

This data shows that Ford BlueCruise has seen substantial usage across the U.S., especially in states with longer stretches of highway and higher vehicle density.

https://www.akinsford.com/blog/how-many-people-are-using-hands-free-driving-now/

In the fast-paced and perilous world of road transportation, driver safety is paramount. The importance of this is underscored by the National Truck Accident Research Centre’s Major Incident Investigation Report 2024, which revealed a 27 per cent increase in overall incident rates in 2023 compared to the previous year.

Incidents related to human factors rose by 42 per cent, with inattention and distraction incidents doubling any other cause and increasing by 75 per cent since 2022. Additionally, fatigue accounted for 9.5 per cent of incidents caused by human factors in 2023. These statistics highlight the critical role of Fatigue and Distraction Detection Technologies (FDDT).

To enhance safety, Seeing Machines pioneered its FDDT, Guardian, in 2008. With more than 17 billion kilometres of road data captured to date, it has played a vital role in safeguarding heavy vehicle drivers as well as feeding into the software now keeping drivers safe in over 2.2 million passenger vehicles. As the company prepares for the launch of Guardian Generation 3, it’s timely to reflect on the lessons learned.

A brief history of Guardian

The first iteration of Guardian, then known as the Driver State Sensor (DSS), launched in 2008 in the off-road/mining sector. Monitoring a driver’s face using a dashboard-mounted sensor, the DSS analysed eyelid closure to detect fatigue and tracked head movements for the identification of distractions. It issued audio and vibration alerts, storing data for analysis or transmitting critical information to fleet management via an in-vehicle modem.

In 2015, Guardian Generation 1 launched for on-road heavy vehicle fleets. This version introduced a forward-facing camera and the Guardian Centre, providing 24/7 monitoring and analysis. Guardian Generation 2 followed, offering advanced technology with reduced hardware needs, along with Guardian Live, enabling fleet managers to interact with real-time data.

Over the years Guardian’s mission has remained constant: detecting fatigue and distractions to reduce accidents and get people home safely.

https://bigrigs.com.au/2024/10/24/technology-is-the-key-to-protecting-truck-drivers/

Various GM models are on display in the Product Showcase Zone, allowing visitors to directly experience GM’s cutting-edge technology and design capabilities, from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles. The eighth-generation Corvette, the supercar representing the Chevrolet brand, is being exhibited for the first time in Korea, alongside various other high-performance models, such as Cadillac’s first pure electric SUV, the LYRIQ, to delight visitors.

The Heritage Zone and Cruise Zone was created to highlight GM’s century-plus history of innovation, which has made it a global automobile industry leader. GM’s next-generation technologies that will lead the future of mobility, such as Cruise Automation, a GM subsidiary that provides autonomous taxi services, and Super Cruise, its hands-free driving technology, are also being featured.

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Intuitive Experiences: Engineered to support context-aware applications, the platforms are designed to enable hands-free automated driving that anticipates needs, along with real-time driver monitoring and enhanced object detection for a smoother, more confident ride. Its improved Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU is targeting to deliver a 3x performance boost* with advanced rendering capabilities, meeting demands for gaming, multimedia, and dynamic driver information.

https://www.telecomtv.com/content/digital-platforms-services/qualcomm-races-ahead-in-the-evolution-of-software-defined-vehicles-51595/amp/

A key theme at the #DDI2024 conference on Driver Distraction and #Inattention being held this week in Ann Arbor MI, is the need to understand context, both of driver behavior and of the external environment. For about the last decade the automotive industry has relentlessly pursued efforts to automate the driving task, but by following a model of a machine driver with a human monitor for partial automation. However decades of human factors research proves that humans cannot babysit automation in this way.

DDI24 raises the possibility of a pivot to a model of a human driver with a machine monitor. This can result in an enhanced driver experience, better driver acceptance, and thus improved #safety outcomes. In a presentation, Mike Lenné from Seeing Machines laid out a path for #fusion of the interior and exterior vision sensors to realize the goal of providing context of driver behavior and the external environment.

Lenné observed: "The more you push the boundaries of interior and exterior sensor fusion, the more you become contextually aware, and the greater the safety benefits and the driving experience." Lenné went on to make a warning: "But the more severe the outcome if you are wrong."

Understanding context is the holy grail of the #interiorsensing industry, but #OEMs cannot follow the lowest cost option as they have done already with #distraction and #drowsiness algorithms. Poor performance doesn't matter so much when all the system does is beep annoyingly at the driver. But when the interior sensors are used to modify the performance of other safety systems, notably #AEB, the detection and classification of driver state has to be correct. This is the challenge now facing the auto industry and #humanfactors expertise is the key.

Jeep is rolling out a classic line for the 2025 model year, and we don’t mean a new retro treatment like the Ford Bronco’s 1980s-inspired Free Wheeling livery. When it comes to the 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee, the classic line is, “Maybe we came on a little strong. Can we try that again?”

Related: How Far Can a Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe Trailhawk Go on Electric Power Alone?

After redesigning the Grand Cherokee for the 2022 model year, the brand jacked up prices for 2023, adding as much as $3,410 for variants that were essentially unchanged. For 2024, Jeep left pricing for the Grand Cherokee alone, but for 2025 they’re pressing control (or command) + Z and reverting back to something closer to 2022’s prices. In fact, some trim levels are cheaper for ‘25 than they were for ‘22, including the entry-level Laredo, which now stickers at $38,830 (all prices include $1,795 destination fee).

Jeep’s Hands-Free Active Driving Assist offers semi-autonomous highway driving on select roads to buyers of upper trim levels. Other available safety features include automated parking, lane-centering steering, a head-up display, driver-attention monitor, 360-degree camera system, front parking sensors with automatic braking, road-sign recognition and Intersection Collision Assist, which watches for crossing and oncoming traffic during turns.

https://www.cars.com/articles/jeep-drops-grand-cherokee-prices-for-2025-starts-at-38830-490873/

GM Full-Size Trucks Are Having Their Best Sales Year Since the Great Recession

The Great Recession of 2008 was hard on just about everyone—especially General Motors. Jokes and jabs about the auto giant taking bailout money from the federal government still get kicked around, but at this point, they’ve gone stale. Those punchlines probably aren’t phasing GM right now anyway because it just posted its best year-to-date sales report for full-size trucks since that economic catastrophe sent things spiraling a decade and a half ago.

GM dropped its Q3 2024 sales stats Tuesday morning announcing that it’s still number one in the full-size SUV space, in addition to the news that it’s nabbed 44% market share in the full-size pickup categories. This includes Chevrolet and GMC, the latter of which just had its best-ever sales quarter with the Sierra in terms of total units moved and retail volume. Not a bad stretch for the General.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-full-size-trucks-are-having-their-best-sales-year-since-the-great-recession

With every model year, the Super Cruise hands-free driving system becomes more widely available across the GM product portfolio. According to the automaker’s Q3 2024 earnings presentation, it plans to continue that trend in 2025.

There’s one slide, in particular, that boasts the bragging rights of Super Cruise and GM’s near-future plans for the hands-free driving system. It said a whopping 280 million miles have been driven with Super Cruise engaged, the road network has expanded to 750,000 miles in North America, and it’s the industry’s first hands-free system with trailering capability.

As for future plans, GM expects about 15 percent of all of its vehicles in 2025 to be equipped with Super Cruise. 22 different models currently have it (up from 15 at the beginning of 2024), either standard or optional, and the General expects about 380,000 Super Cruise-enabled vehicles to be on the road by the end of 2024 and double that in 2025.

2025 is the first model year that any GM vehicle has Super Cruise as standard equipment on every trim, specifically the refreshed 2025 Cadillac Escalade and 2025 Cadillac CT5. 2025 is also the debut year for Super Cruise in the Buick brand with the redesigned 2025 Buick Enclave. It was originally announced it would be available in the refreshed 2024 Buick Envision, but Buick changed its plans. Super Cruise availability in the Enclave makes the technology available across all four of GM’s North American retail brands.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/10/15-percent-of-gm-vehicles-will-include-super-cruise-in-2025/

2025 Mercedes-Benz S-Class - The Pinnacle of Comfort and Power!

The Drive Pilot system allows for hands-free driving on select roads, giving a glimpse into the future of autonomous driving. Inside, the cabin is a masterpiece of luxury and technology, featuring a 12.8-inch touchscreen display and a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, both designed to provide drivers with a seamless, intuitive experience.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gZRczx7oNIc

The CLA will include ‘Level 2 Plus’ semi-autonomous driving technology at launch; the concept uses ‘Level 3’ but this will not be used in the initial showroom version.

https://www.drive.com.au/news/2026-mercedes-benz-cla-everything-we-know-about-the-electric-and-mild-hybrid-sedan/

While the 2025 Mustang Mach-E will be among the first vehicles to feature BlueCruise 1.5, Ford has yet to announce which other models and model years will receive the update. However, given the company's commitment to advancing driver-assist technologies, it's likely that we'll see a broader rollout across Ford's UK lineup in the near future.

https://www.carsupermarket.com/blog/fords-bluecruise-15-bringing-hands-free-lane-changes-to-uk-roads

62.5% are with SEE…

We like driving—but we don't particularly enjoy driving in bumper-to-bumper traffic or on long highway slogs. Hands-free systems are here to help, and we're here to help you understand their capabilities and limitations.

We've sifted through the marketing fluff and technical info to bring you details on all hands-free driving systems you can get on a new car right now. The basics are generally the same: the driver can remove their hands from the steering wheel only on specific, mapped roads under certain circumstances, and they have to pay attention and be ready to take back control; a camera hidden somewhere pays attention to them and is supposed to identify distraction, which is followed by some sort of nagging.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62586657/every-hands-free-driving-system-2024/

The Ford Mustang Mach-E can't afford to rest on its laurels. Sure, it's still the second best-selling electric SUV after the Tesla Model Y, and Ford says more than half of Mach-E customers are new to the brand. But it's still been around since late 2020 now and new competition is showing up all of the time.

https://insideevs.com/news/737988/2025-ford-mustang-mach-e/

Canadian supply giant Magna International has revealed a new driver monitoring system designed to reduce distracted driving. The technology is integrated into a vehicle's interior rearview mirror. Cameras monitor the driver's head, eye, and body movements to detect drowsiness, fatigue, and distracted behavior. If any such condition is detected, the driver is alerted through customizable audible or visual notifications. The technology also takes into account normal driving behavior, such as looking in the side-view mirrors. Integrating the camera with the vehicle's interior mirrors provides the driver with an optimal unobstructed view and the best vantage point for additional occupant monitoring features, Magna said in a press release. The supplier also said the system can be expanded to include features such as child presence detection, seat belt detection, and identification of specific occupants for user-preferred memory settings.

https://maiaresearch.com/Press_Release/1856626.html

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with around 180 guardian seeing machines cameras already installed in the firm’s interstate line haul trucks, mainfreight australia national support manager ashley taylor says adding mitac units to the ****nal is the next step.

the mitac cameras offer dashcam and video telematics featuring ai technology with high-quality video footage of the road ahead as well as driver facing recording.

since adopting guardian technology in 2019, mainfreight australia has reported a 96% reduction in recorded fatigue events.

when the cameras were first installed, mainfreight australia vehicles recorded 15.48 fatigue events per 10,000km driven. in august 2024, the guardian cameras installed in mainfreight australia vehicles recorded 0.49 fatigue events per 10,000km driven.

while, according to studies, guardian’s driver facing camera monitors fatigue and distraction and prevents fatigue incidents by up to 90%, mitac complements the system with a front-facing camera to monitor the road ahead as well as the driver-facing camera with an advantage of recording footage in real time.

it can also detect potential safety issues, like distracted driving and aggressive behaviour, allowing fleet managers to take corrective action to prevent accidents and improve driver safety.

“it will be a fantastic solution for our drivers. our local fleet is growing significantly and this means we get complaints from the public from time to time. but there are three sides to every road incident: the driver’s perception, the public perception, and what actually happened,” taylor says.

https://transporttalk.co.nz/news/mainfreight-equips-australian-trucks-with-600-cameras

Today, we had the pleasure of presenting our new Vehicle Risk Rating system to over 20 Chinese Vehicle Manufacturers.

Our team, including Jonathan Hewett, Ben Townsend, and Philip Jagoe, along with partners from Motability Operations Ltd and GDV Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V. (the German Insurance Association), shared insights on how the Vehicle Risk Rating's comprehensive approach can drive positive industry change.

By evaluating Performance, Damageability, Repairability, Safety, and Security, Vehicle Risk Rating offers a dynamic, data-driven assessment of a vehicle’s risk profile. This helps insurers set more accurate premiums, enables manufacturers to address insurance challenges proactively, and provides drivers with greater transparency.

We're looking forward to continuing these discussions and shaping a more insurable future for the automotive industry.