Besides displaying the Cadillac Provoq, GM CEO Rick Wagoner also discussed GMs future plans for vehicle to vehicle (V2V) technology in his speech as the Consumer Electronics Show.
Using their built in GM OnStar communications system as a starting point, cars could eventually be programmed to communicate with one another, GPS, and the road such that they can drive autonomously.
In his words:
autonomous driving means that, someday, you could do your e-mail, eat breakfast, apply your makeup, read the newspaper, watch a video … all while commuting to work. In other words, you could do all the things you do right now while commuting to work, except you could do it safely
How’s that for cruise control?
Who knows, one day in the future maybe our Volts could all log-on to GM-Volt.com, and we can drive together, virtually exchanging ideas, and car data as we go.
Source (Detroit Free Press)
