The Near Future of Driving: Eyes Forward, but No Hands at 10 and 2<br />Ms. Sieradski said G. M.<br />had tried to engineer Super Cruise to keep drivers safe —<br />and limit opportunities to use the system improperly — by restricting how and where they could use it.<br />The system is able to determine when the car is on a service road along the highway, or even on entry<br />and exit ramps — locations where it requires you to steer yourself.<br />The system determines its exact location by relying on high-precision digital maps<br />and GPS technology, while sensors track the surrounding traffic — the way sensors do for driver aides like adaptive cruise control.<br />So on this brisk November day, my hands-free road trip with Super Cruise offered a glimpse into<br />that future — a world in which the grinding daily commute will transform into quiet time, and long drives can become productive hours on the road.<br />I am tapping this into my iPhone while sitting at the wheel of a 2018 Cadillac CT6 luxury sedan, rolling<br />along a shade under 75 miles per hour on Interstate 94 about 20 miles west of Ann Arbor, Mich.<br />After a few seconds, the light strip turns green again, and my hands are free to go back to the iPhone.<br />That leaves me free to sit back and type these words — and do much more that would otherwise be considered unsafe — as the mile markers zip by.
