General Motors has announced that Ultra Cruise1, the company’s next-generation advanced driver assistance system to ultimately enable hands-free driving in 95 per cent of all driving scenarios, will have a 360-degree view of the vehicle through a unique sensor suite when it launches on the Cadillac Celestiq 3.
The whole-trip hands-off system will use a blend of cameras; short- and long-range radars, and lidar behind the windshield.
Over time, GM expects customers will be able to travel truly hands-free with Ultra Cruise across nearly every paved public road in the U.S. and Canada—including city streets; subdivision streets, and rural roads, as well as highways. Vehicles equipped with Ultra Cruise hardware will get incremental enhancements through over-the-air software updates. Ultra Cruise’s sensor suite comprises:
- The physical hardware, powered by a scalable compute architecture from Qualcomm;
- Seven long-range 8-megapixel cameras on the front; corners; back, and sides of the vehicle, providing expanded fields of view;
- Four short-range corner radars to help sense a radius of up to 90 meters, like pedestrians crossing the street or vehicles in surrounding lanes;
- Three long-range 4D radars on the front and back of the vehicle for adaptive cruise control as well as lane change maneuvers at highway speeds, and
- A lidar behind the windshield to produce an accurate three-dimensional view of the scene, enabling more precise detection of objects and road features such as vehicles and lane markings.
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During Cepton’s quarterly earnings report and call, they confirmed they will be supplying lidar sensors to GM.
