The Reliability and Safety Concerns of Super Cruise

Super Cruise, a semi-autonomous driving system developed by General Motors, is designed to provide drivers with a hands-free experience on long highway drives. However, despite its promising features, the system has several drawbacks that raise concerns about its reliability and safety.

One of the most significant issues with Super Cruise is its tendency to make mistakes. For instance, during a test drive, the system switched to a middle lane without detecting an Equinox approaching from behind. Luckily, Jack took over the wheel and avoided a potentially disastrous collision. This incident highlights the limitations of Super Cruise's sensors and algorithms, which can fail to detect obstacles or pedestrians in certain situations.

Another concern with Super Cruise is its reliance on data connections to function properly. The system requires an active internet connection to operate, which means that if the driver loses signal, the car will shut down. This can be a significant issue for drivers who are using their vehicle on long road trips or in areas with poor cellular coverage.

Furthermore, Super Cruise relies heavily on user input and attention to function correctly. The system provides several warnings and alerts to drivers to take control of the wheel if they fail to respond promptly. However, this means that even when the driver thinks they have given up control, the car may still try to maintain speed or adjust its trajectory without their consent.

The lack of transparency and accountability in Super Cruise's development process also raises concerns about its safety. Companies like General Motors are not always willing to accept liability for accidents caused by their autonomous systems, leaving drivers and passengers vulnerable to harm. In the event of an accident, it may be difficult to determine whether the driver was fully aware of the risks involved or if they were simply caught off guard.

In addition to these concerns, Super Cruise's fine print is also worth noting. The system requires a subscription service to function, which means that drivers will need to pay for ongoing fees even after the initial three-year period. This adds an additional layer of complexity and expense to what is already a complex and expensive system.

Moreover, Super Cruise's reliance on user data collection raises concerns about privacy and security. The system collects a wealth of information about the driver's habits, including GPS coordinates, speed, and usage patterns. While this data may be used to improve the system and provide better customer service, it also creates opportunities for third-party data collectors and advertisers to exploit.

Overall, Super Cruise is still a developing technology that has its limitations and concerns. As autonomous vehicles become more widespread, it will be essential to address these issues and ensure that drivers are fully informed about their risks and responsibilities. Until then, drivers should remain vigilant and attentive when using semi-autonomous systems like Super Cruise.

The Reality of Level 4 and Level 5 Autonomy

One of the most significant challenges facing autonomous vehicle technology is its inability to account for complex human factors on the road. While level 4 autonomy may allow cars to drive themselves in certain situations, they are still far from true self-driving capabilities. The system's reliance on user input and attention highlights the need for more advanced sensors and algorithms that can accurately detect and respond to a wide range of scenarios.

Furthermore, even with advanced technology, there is no substitute for human judgment and quick reflexes when it comes to reacting to unexpected events on the road. As long as humans are driving alongside autonomous vehicles, there will always be a risk of accidents or near-misses due to driver distraction or inattention.

In conclusion, while Super Cruise and other semi-autonomous systems have their advantages, they also have significant limitations that need to be addressed. Until these issues are resolved, drivers should remain cautious and attentive when using such systems, and policymakers and regulators should prioritize the development of more advanced autonomous technologies that can truly ensure road safety.

The Importance of Human Judgment and Oversight

As autonomous vehicles become more prevalent on our roads, it is essential to recognize the importance of human judgment and oversight in their operation. While technology has made tremendous strides in recent years, there is still no substitute for human intuition and quick reflexes when it comes to reacting to unexpected events.

One of the most significant challenges facing autonomous vehicle technology is its inability to account for complex human factors on the road. For example, pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vehicles may not always follow the rules of the road or behave in predictable ways. Without human judgment and oversight, these systems can become overwhelmed and fail to respond effectively.

Moreover, even with advanced sensors and algorithms, there is no guarantee that autonomous vehicles will be able to detect and respond to all possible scenarios on the road. Human drivers have a unique ability to process visual and auditory information quickly and make split-second decisions that can save lives.

In contrast, autonomous vehicles are limited by their programming and design assumptions. While they may be able to navigate complex traffic patterns with ease, they lack the flexibility and adaptability of human drivers. This means that even in situations where humans are not involved, there is still a risk of accidents or near-misses due to the limitations of autonomous technology.

Ultimately, human judgment and oversight are essential components of any safe and effective autonomous vehicle system. By prioritizing human factors and incorporating more advanced sensors and algorithms, we can develop systems that truly prioritize road safety and minimize the risks associated with autonomous driving.

The Future of Autonomous Vehicle Technology

As autonomous vehicle technology continues to evolve, it is essential to prioritize transparency, accountability, and human judgment in its development and deployment. While Super Cruise and other semi-autonomous systems have their advantages, they also highlight the need for more advanced and reliable technologies that can truly ensure road safety.

One potential solution is to develop more advanced sensors and algorithms that can accurately detect and respond to complex scenarios on the road. For example, researchers are exploring new technologies such as lidar and radar sensors that can provide more accurate and comprehensive information about the surroundings.

Another approach is to prioritize human factors in the design of autonomous vehicle systems. By incorporating more intuitive interfaces and user-friendly designs, we can reduce driver distraction and increase the likelihood of successful system deployment.

Ultimately, the future of autonomous vehicle technology will depend on our ability to balance technological advancements with human judgment and oversight. By prioritizing safety and transparency above all else, we can develop systems that truly prioritize road safety and minimize the risks associated with autonomous driving.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: endriving aids or driving assistance programs you're hearing more and more about it with different branding from every company they're all telling you or some of them are telling you that they're capable of fully autonomous driving and in this video we're going to have a little bit of a discussion about that driving around in cadillac's escalade with their super cruise driving assistance package now to understand some of this you have to understand the different levels of driving assistance and it goes at this point from level one to level five where level one and two require your input require your attention there's kind of an in between two plus that allows you to take your hands off the wheel and the car will do some automated tasks like speed up slow down take control of the steering wheel without you touching the steering wheel but it requires you looking ahead by using eye tracking sensors or motion tracking sensors and it's making sure that you're alerted so right now we're basically maxed out in the consumer layer around level three and mercedes is a level three program and other companies are probably gonna say they're they have level three where you don't have to pay attention to the road in front of you where it doesn't require eye tracking but the gimmick there is it doesn't let you drive above a certain speed and the speed is arbitrary you know company can make it 35 miles an hour they can make it 55. so where we're at is maxed out right now really in level 3. now tesla says they have full self-driving which as we've seen and we know this isn't necessarily aligned with reality it's a lot harder to get a car that drives itself completely from point a to point b getting off on highways doing the stops it needs to do doing it safely and then allowing you just to sit there and take your pants off and give yourself a body bath we're not there and we're not going to be there for a long time but in in this drive segment really what you're going to start to see is how are some of these assistance programs working and then kind of a philosophical debate on them green arrow means go jack what does the toll way mean mark the toll weight means go 200 miles an hour on this what's the max speed i don't know 112 115 we're in a big boy we're in the escalade so you talked a little bit about like super cruise and the technical part of all of this so let's get into it jack we're driving so i'm going to activate supercruise mark i have my adaptive cruise control on and i'm on a highway that has been geocached by supercrews and general motors now supercruise is activated mark so i can go hands-free so let's talk about hands-free for a minute tell me what that means because there's all these levels of autonomy nobody understands and nobody really gets what is what so what is it hands-free at least the way i understand it is a purely assistance level grade of of driver aid meaning it is doing things for you but you have to monitor it this is not i can get in the back seat and go to sleep i'm not in a transportation pod i'm still in a automobile which is run by tech and tech often has issues so even though this is doing a lane change for me because this highlander is doing 10 miles an hour underneath the speed limit highlander oh this highlight yeah this highlander in front of me is doing 10 miles an hour underneath the speed limit i still have to monitor it so i mean your bmw that you own your x7 has something similar but much like the bmw this has similar systems to monitor your attention as well it's it's looking at what my eyes so there's this beam up here is putting an eye an eye or a light on my eyeballs there's a camera right above the cadillac badge on the steering wheel it's constantly monitoring what i'm doing so if i'm trying to create the latest tick-tock video on my phone it will turn off in my sequel buzz the seat will buzz as well when it's going to turn left or right to get around someone moving slower than you and it'll vibrate either my left or right cheek accordingly now does it actively go around traffic or do you always have to have your turn signal so if i'm behind someone in the right lane and they are going too slow or slower than the the speed that i have set it will go around and then it it'll see that they're going too slow and i'll move over to the left but i guess back to the conversation what do these systems you think mean here and now to people like you or i who you know will be in a position who are in a position to buy a vehicle with something like this equipped so what this is is it's a stress reducer assistance system right i mean it's it's for those who drive a lot that are on highways that clearly are set up for this type of technology to have a higher level of success like this is a great environment where this system can work and be helpful and it takes the edge off of driving where you're not completely having to be hands on and being fatigued in traffic all the time if you have the money for one of these systems at least in the cadillacs case it works very well in the case of the bmw if you're crawling in traffic like when i used it in chicago in stop and go traffic it's amazing it takes the probably 50 percent of the fatigue off of driving and that's where this is great i have no problem with this however the thing is is it has its limitations and it only works on certain roads like this of course that are straight shots that are perfectly lined that there's no turns or obstacles or trap cross traffic coming through there's not going to be some baby stroller rolling across the road unless it falls off some like pickup from 50 years ago you know like it's it's really controlled and when we talk about full autonomy we had a bit of a conversation about this already and i did a video on autonomous cars and how they're kind of a scam a lot of it has been over promised and under delivered they've made it sound a lot more simple than just like tesla in it's it's not that their technology and hardware is not good it's just a lot of their marketing is really bad they're not honest about what it can and can't do and i think a lot of these companies have started over the past five years really realizing that there are massive limitations of what software and hardware can do combined with existing affordable technology of lidar radar you have the camera systems that are not you know camera systems are you got to put a lot of them on a car so they're not going to spend a thousand dollars on each camera so that means it's not going to have the best photo sensitive or light sensitivity best exposure best camera lenses they're still they're still lenses so they're subject to dirt dust snow salt blockages bright light if you have a dirty lens on light and you shine a light through it you blind out that camera and the system can't work so you have all these mechanical issues with trying to read ahead and look around you and you're trying to take a car that's trying to be semi-autonomous or autonomous and putting them with human drivers on roads never designed like yesterday we were driving through michigan to go to a car unveil and a gentleman in the on the ramp we had no idea it was a blind enrollment literally you can't see the ramp coming up so as a human driver we couldn't even anticipate that guy's mover what the out was how is a computer system going to be able to read ahead you know down that ramp and make that judgment to make that judgment the thing is it just can't do that it can't handle the complicated situations that's where human intervention is always going to be now how you fix it and this is why this is never going to happen for a long time at least in the united states is we talk about connected cars in our toyota video and we talked to microsoft about hpc and connected cars the way you would have to do autonomous driving currently is every car would have to be connected to the internet it would have to be cloud connected and there would have to be standardization across all companies all cloud providers where that gmc is connected to this car where they can talk back and forth connected to a honda which is connected to a four yes where they know geo location gps coordinates and real time gps coordinates which means now you're you're relying on satellite communication they're going to need to know proximity data they're going to need to know temperature speed all of these things are going to be have to happen in real time between these two cars to really understand what's happening then you're going to have to add fail-safe technology that means redundant 4g or 5g connectivity or whatever the future is so you're not dropping internet connections to the cloud so that system works you're going to have to have redundant cameras lidar and then the worst part about all of that is you're going to need all the processing and you're going to need to also have government and the legislative part or regulations part mandating that we have roads that are set up just for autonomous drivers or a single lane basically cars that point have to be not cars but transportation pods this technology supercruise and things like this as we talked about early are purely just a driving aid while they have made this conversation really easy i've had to pay minimal attention to the road but i still have to pay attention it's not doing everything for me all the time and i think autonomous cars you know this idea that tesla's sold to some of their customers and some of the other oems have at least to my knowledge and you and i are in and out of a lot of cars that doesn't exist no it's it's science fiction and it's science fiction for the very reasons that we talked about is that is the technology is so complicated and what it takes to make this work is so far over normal people's heads that they're never gonna grasp all the ins and outs so all you can really talk about is like this is why it doesn't work and these are the hurdles and obstacles to get to full full autonomous driving and you need it from the top up top i'm sorry top down from government mandating lanes and setting up highways for this and you need to get human traffic manual us driving like a sports car at 150 miles an hour out of those autonomous lanes and get rid of them completely which is almost completely impossible in this country yeah we haven't been able to do it for our semi trucks and our trucking lanes i have no idea how we're thinking that's going to be possible for mainstream automobiles and i think the the last thing we'll talk about mark is we talk about how cars are becoming less analog less connected a lot of it sadly for us you know we joked about in our live stream why can't cars have manual steering well if cars have manual steering they couldn't do this right and that that's that's you're you're right you know do to have the technology and the safety systems in these cars requires all the eps units multi-motor and brake by wi-fi yep so the car can actually take over and do the assistant stuff that people claim that they want but you know for the people like us and probably that small percentage of people that are going to watch this that really like that driving experience and want to understand it the the very technology they're putting in here to make people safer is also taking away the fun and engagement of driving you can have one or the other at this point you can't have both yeah for sure but mark i think it's time for us to wrap up this little conversation sir yeah where the hell are we i have no idea i think we're live super cruising drives us into oblivion yeah we're gonna be like 45 minutes away now i know this was a long huge discussion about the future the pitfalls but here's the pros the supercrew system works great because it's set up to work great on divided highways so if you're on a road trip you're going to from illinois to florida or florida to california or you're on a divided highway the entire time you can literally do nothing except pull over for fuel or a charge or whatever you're going to do with it so in that regard it works very very well because they're not over over complicating it the road systems are vetted and then up sent to the car for updates to allow you to use it i like that part of it so what's the negative well it doesn't work all the time and i would say it's like it all it takes is that one time for it not to work and you're in a world of hurt it's like if you're wearing a condom 99 out of 100 times you're having intercourse and that one time you don't and now you got warts you got three kids on the way you're you know you're gonna be in trouble and that's why you constantly have to do your due diligence in a system like this and in the case of super cruise it did make a mistake once it went switching to a middle lane and there was an equinox coming in our blind spot that it didn't see and we would have merged into each other jack took over the wheel grabbed the wheel and turned in the spot and it never saw that car now you know that and that's the biggest problem with stuff like this and the fact that companies are not accepting liability for accidents or anything like that so it's on you completely to pay attention even though it lulls you into the false sense of security then it's got you covered and we saw this with tesla's bright light like on a sun sunny day on a sunset where bright lights directly on a sensor the system freaks out we've seen hyundai and kia's just like think there's uh you're crossing over a lane and you're not uh the toyota systems are even worse with that it constantly thinks you're lane deviating and it doesn't and some of these semi-autonomous systems do similar things in adverse conditions my bmw literally slammed on the brakes for no reason on the highway and came to a dead stop because it thought there was a ghost object in front and there's traffic coming up behind so it's it's these systems you put a lot of faith in them but you still have to mine them you still have to pay attention and that's why they're not really autonomous i don't care what brand it is and we're a long way away from that the other fine print of this in the case of super cruise and i asked gm this what happens if you lose a data connection because the car is always connected to the internet it's all always uploading and receiving data from their cloud infrastructure you lose data connection super crews will stop you have to take over the car or if you don't respond it will literally try to part go pull over itself and stop the car um and let you know that your service has been disconnected or if your subscription ends supercruise will no longer work it requires an active data connection and an onstar connection because if you have a problem let's say your supercruises activated you take your hands off the wheel you turn your head or you fall asleep but i can't track eye data i can't track head movement it's going to prompt you a ton of different ways vibration tones lights all of that if you don't respond to that it will pull over the car onstar will get in call you in the car and see if you need emergency services so that system works hand in hand and it has to be there it's free for the first three years after that you're on your own it's another cell phone bill essentially and you're handing over all your private data you're handing over the car's usage habits what you're using on the screen where you're going what you're doing gps coordinates speed all the relevant information is going to the cloud for gm to tear through that data and use it to improve their services they also will sell it to third-party data collectors and data miners so there's no way to opt out of it and most car companies are doing the same way for services like that so that's the fine print of this but if you don't know anything about privacy you pretty much let people hijack all your information on social media it's all searchable it's all obtainable through the right parties at this point anyway so you know what's your priorities and that's just that i would say we're a long way away from that level four level five where you take your hands off the wheel and just you know doing nothing in the car because we still have that mixed human traffic that the computer systems today cannot account for on mixed highways and as long as we have that i don't care who's doing the software design what sensors you have uh it's never gonna work perfectly and we're always gonna have to babysit these cars and that's at least in 2022 that's the overwhelming feeling thanks for watching i'll see you next video youdriving aids or driving assistance programs you're hearing more and more about it with different branding from every company they're all telling you or some of them are telling you that they're capable of fully autonomous driving and in this video we're going to have a little bit of a discussion about that driving around in cadillac's escalade with their super cruise driving assistance package now to understand some of this you have to understand the different levels of driving assistance and it goes at this point from level one to level five where level one and two require your input require your attention there's kind of an in between two plus that allows you to take your hands off the wheel and the car will do some automated tasks like speed up slow down take control of the steering wheel without you touching the steering wheel but it requires you looking ahead by using eye tracking sensors or motion tracking sensors and it's making sure that you're alerted so right now we're basically maxed out in the consumer layer around level three and mercedes is a level three program and other companies are probably gonna say they're they have level three where you don't have to pay attention to the road in front of you where it doesn't require eye tracking but the gimmick there is it doesn't let you drive above a certain speed and the speed is arbitrary you know company can make it 35 miles an hour they can make it 55. so where we're at is maxed out right now really in level 3. now tesla says they have full self-driving which as we've seen and we know this isn't necessarily aligned with reality it's a lot harder to get a car that drives itself completely from point a to point b getting off on highways doing the stops it needs to do doing it safely and then allowing you just to sit there and take your pants off and give yourself a body bath we're not there and we're not going to be there for a long time but in in this drive segment really what you're going to start to see is how are some of these assistance programs working and then kind of a philosophical debate on them green arrow means go jack what does the toll way mean mark the toll weight means go 200 miles an hour on this what's the max speed i don't know 112 115 we're in a big boy we're in the escalade so you talked a little bit about like super cruise and the technical part of all of this so let's get into it jack we're driving so i'm going to activate supercruise mark i have my adaptive cruise control on and i'm on a highway that has been geocached by supercrews and general motors now supercruise is activated mark so i can go hands-free so let's talk about hands-free for a minute tell me what that means because there's all these levels of autonomy nobody understands and nobody really gets what is what so what is it hands-free at least the way i understand it is a purely assistance level grade of of driver aid meaning it is doing things for you but you have to monitor it this is not i can get in the back seat and go to sleep i'm not in a transportation pod i'm still in a automobile which is run by tech and tech often has issues so even though this is doing a lane change for me because this highlander is doing 10 miles an hour underneath the speed limit highlander oh this highlight yeah this highlander in front of me is doing 10 miles an hour underneath the speed limit i still have to monitor it so i mean your bmw that you own your x7 has something similar but much like the bmw this has similar systems to monitor your attention as well it's it's looking at what my eyes so there's this beam up here is putting an eye an eye or a light on my eyeballs there's a camera right above the cadillac badge on the steering wheel it's constantly monitoring what i'm doing so if i'm trying to create the latest tick-tock video on my phone it will turn off in my sequel buzz the seat will buzz as well when it's going to turn left or right to get around someone moving slower than you and it'll vibrate either my left or right cheek accordingly now does it actively go around traffic or do you always have to have your turn signal so if i'm behind someone in the right lane and they are going too slow or slower than the the speed that i have set it will go around and then it it'll see that they're going too slow and i'll move over to the left but i guess back to the conversation what do these systems you think mean here and now to people like you or i who you know will be in a position who are in a position to buy a vehicle with something like this equipped so what this is is it's a stress reducer assistance system right i mean it's it's for those who drive a lot that are on highways that clearly are set up for this type of technology to have a higher level of success like this is a great environment where this system can work and be helpful and it takes the edge off of driving where you're not completely having to be hands on and being fatigued in traffic all the time if you have the money for one of these systems at least in the cadillacs case it works very well in the case of the bmw if you're crawling in traffic like when i used it in chicago in stop and go traffic it's amazing it takes the probably 50 percent of the fatigue off of driving and that's where this is great i have no problem with this however the thing is is it has its limitations and it only works on certain roads like this of course that are straight shots that are perfectly lined that there's no turns or obstacles or trap cross traffic coming through there's not going to be some baby stroller rolling across the road unless it falls off some like pickup from 50 years ago you know like it's it's really controlled and when we talk about full autonomy we had a bit of a conversation about this already and i did a video on autonomous cars and how they're kind of a scam a lot of it has been over promised and under delivered they've made it sound a lot more simple than just like tesla in it's it's not that their technology and hardware is not good it's just a lot of their marketing is really bad they're not honest about what it can and can't do and i think a lot of these companies have started over the past five years really realizing that there are massive limitations of what software and hardware can do combined with existing affordable technology of lidar radar you have the camera systems that are not you know camera systems are you got to put a lot of them on a car so they're not going to spend a thousand dollars on each camera so that means it's not going to have the best photo sensitive or light sensitivity best exposure best camera lenses they're still they're still lenses so they're subject to dirt dust snow salt blockages bright light if you have a dirty lens on light and you shine a light through it you blind out that camera and the system can't work so you have all these mechanical issues with trying to read ahead and look around you and you're trying to take a car that's trying to be semi-autonomous or autonomous and putting them with human drivers on roads never designed like yesterday we were driving through michigan to go to a car unveil and a gentleman in the on the ramp we had no idea it was a blind enrollment literally you can't see the ramp coming up so as a human driver we couldn't even anticipate that guy's mover what the out was how is a computer system going to be able to read ahead you know down that ramp and make that judgment to make that judgment the thing is it just can't do that it can't handle the complicated situations that's where human intervention is always going to be now how you fix it and this is why this is never going to happen for a long time at least in the united states is we talk about connected cars in our toyota video and we talked to microsoft about hpc and connected cars the way you would have to do autonomous driving currently is every car would have to be connected to the internet it would have to be cloud connected and there would have to be standardization across all companies all cloud providers where that gmc is connected to this car where they can talk back and forth connected to a honda which is connected to a four yes where they know geo location gps coordinates and real time gps coordinates which means now you're you're relying on satellite communication they're going to need to know proximity data they're going to need to know temperature speed all of these things are going to be have to happen in real time between these two cars to really understand what's happening then you're going to have to add fail-safe technology that means redundant 4g or 5g connectivity or whatever the future is so you're not dropping internet connections to the cloud so that system works you're going to have to have redundant cameras lidar and then the worst part about all of that is you're going to need all the processing and you're going to need to also have government and the legislative part or regulations part mandating that we have roads that are set up just for autonomous drivers or a single lane basically cars that point have to be not cars but transportation pods this technology supercruise and things like this as we talked about early are purely just a driving aid while they have made this conversation really easy i've had to pay minimal attention to the road but i still have to pay attention it's not doing everything for me all the time and i think autonomous cars you know this idea that tesla's sold to some of their customers and some of the other oems have at least to my knowledge and you and i are in and out of a lot of cars that doesn't exist no it's it's science fiction and it's science fiction for the very reasons that we talked about is that is the technology is so complicated and what it takes to make this work is so far over normal people's heads that they're never gonna grasp all the ins and outs so all you can really talk about is like this is why it doesn't work and these are the hurdles and obstacles to get to full full autonomous driving and you need it from the top up top i'm sorry top down from government mandating lanes and setting up highways for this and you need to get human traffic manual us driving like a sports car at 150 miles an hour out of those autonomous lanes and get rid of them completely which is almost completely impossible in this country yeah we haven't been able to do it for our semi trucks and our trucking lanes i have no idea how we're thinking that's going to be possible for mainstream automobiles and i think the the last thing we'll talk about mark is we talk about how cars are becoming less analog less connected a lot of it sadly for us you know we joked about in our live stream why can't cars have manual steering well if cars have manual steering they couldn't do this right and that that's that's you're you're right you know do to have the technology and the safety systems in these cars requires all the eps units multi-motor and brake by wi-fi yep so the car can actually take over and do the assistant stuff that people claim that they want but you know for the people like us and probably that small percentage of people that are going to watch this that really like that driving experience and want to understand it the the very technology they're putting in here to make people safer is also taking away the fun and engagement of driving you can have one or the other at this point you can't have both yeah for sure but mark i think it's time for us to wrap up this little conversation sir yeah where the hell are we i have no idea i think we're live super cruising drives us into oblivion yeah we're gonna be like 45 minutes away now i know this was a long huge discussion about the future the pitfalls but here's the pros the supercrew system works great because it's set up to work great on divided highways so if you're on a road trip you're going to from illinois to florida or florida to california or you're on a divided highway the entire time you can literally do nothing except pull over for fuel or a charge or whatever you're going to do with it so in that regard it works very very well because they're not over over complicating it the road systems are vetted and then up sent to the car for updates to allow you to use it i like that part of it so what's the negative well it doesn't work all the time and i would say it's like it all it takes is that one time for it not to work and you're in a world of hurt it's like if you're wearing a condom 99 out of 100 times you're having intercourse and that one time you don't and now you got warts you got three kids on the way you're you know you're gonna be in trouble and that's why you constantly have to do your due diligence in a system like this and in the case of super cruise it did make a mistake once it went switching to a middle lane and there was an equinox coming in our blind spot that it didn't see and we would have merged into each other jack took over the wheel grabbed the wheel and turned in the spot and it never saw that car now you know that and that's the biggest problem with stuff like this and the fact that companies are not accepting liability for accidents or anything like that so it's on you completely to pay attention even though it lulls you into the false sense of security then it's got you covered and we saw this with tesla's bright light like on a sun sunny day on a sunset where bright lights directly on a sensor the system freaks out we've seen hyundai and kia's just like think there's uh you're crossing over a lane and you're not uh the toyota systems are even worse with that it constantly thinks you're lane deviating and it doesn't and some of these semi-autonomous systems do similar things in adverse conditions my bmw literally slammed on the brakes for no reason on the highway and came to a dead stop because it thought there was a ghost object in front and there's traffic coming up behind so it's it's these systems you put a lot of faith in them but you still have to mine them you still have to pay attention and that's why they're not really autonomous i don't care what brand it is and we're a long way away from that the other fine print of this in the case of super cruise and i asked gm this what happens if you lose a data connection because the car is always connected to the internet it's all always uploading and receiving data from their cloud infrastructure you lose data connection super crews will stop you have to take over the car or if you don't respond it will literally try to part go pull over itself and stop the car um and let you know that your service has been disconnected or if your subscription ends supercruise will no longer work it requires an active data connection and an onstar connection because if you have a problem let's say your supercruises activated you take your hands off the wheel you turn your head or you fall asleep but i can't track eye data i can't track head movement it's going to prompt you a ton of different ways vibration tones lights all of that if you don't respond to that it will pull over the car onstar will get in call you in the car and see if you need emergency services so that system works hand in hand and it has to be there it's free for the first three years after that you're on your own it's another cell phone bill essentially and you're handing over all your private data you're handing over the car's usage habits what you're using on the screen where you're going what you're doing gps coordinates speed all the relevant information is going to the cloud for gm to tear through that data and use it to improve their services they also will sell it to third-party data collectors and data miners so there's no way to opt out of it and most car companies are doing the same way for services like that so that's the fine print of this but if you don't know anything about privacy you pretty much let people hijack all your information on social media it's all searchable it's all obtainable through the right parties at this point anyway so you know what's your priorities and that's just that i would say we're a long way away from that level four level five where you take your hands off the wheel and just you know doing nothing in the car because we still have that mixed human traffic that the computer systems today cannot account for on mixed highways and as long as we have that i don't care who's doing the software design what sensors you have uh it's never gonna work perfectly and we're always gonna have to babysit these cars and that's at least in 2022 that's the overwhelming feeling thanks for watching i'll see you next video you\n"