[sanguy]

Cruise has been a disaster inside GM for awhile now with a lack of progress to bring Super-Cruise to all models all across the US.

They have had several tenders for the data required to build out the Super-Cruise maps but these have all been a disaster as clear the critical knowledge is gone.

[jowday]

Confusingly enough, Cruise has nothing to do with Super-Cruise. Super-Cruise is handled by an in-house team at GM.

[andrewia]

From what I know, GM Super Cruise is unrelated to Cruise LLC. GM has been developing Super Cruise on their own since 2013, and the system relies on a forward-facing camera and 3 radars (front and blind spots) to navigate the road. It links the camera's lane recognition data to 3D road maps stored onboard to anticipate the road ahead. It's also restricted to limited-access roads where pedestrians aren't a concern.

Cruise AVs are much different. They appear to use LIDAR, radar, and camera data to understand their surroundings including intersections, pedestrians, and road hazards.

[hnburnsy]

Thanks, that is confusing, was just going to ask if super cruise uses lidar. I see the answer is no.

So who is the CEO of super cruise and isn't "super cruise" better than "cruise"? I see "ultra cruise" (with LIDAR) is coming soon. Geeeesh.