Consumer Reports agrees with Ars: GM Super Cruise beats Tesla Autopilot

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Back in February, I got very excited about the Cadillac CT6 sedan. It didn't handle better than its competitors. It wasn't faster or better put-together. But it did come with Super Cruise: a cutting-edge semi-autonomous driving assist that combines HD mapping and a proper driver monitoring system. Super Cruise is geofenced, so it only works on divided lane highways-and only when it knows you're looking at the road ahead, thanks to that driver monitoring system. That made it the best such system on the market-yes, even better than Tesla's Autopilot-and it seems Consumer Reports agrees. On Thursday it published its first-ever ranking of semi-automated driving systems, putting Super Cruise in at the top.

The proliferation of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) across the auto industry has been quite a thing to watch. Some features are there for driver convenience, like adaptive cruise control and lane keeping. Others-collision warning or emergency braking for example-are more consciously safety features. But the rollout can also be a bit bewildering, particularly when it comes to relative performance. The problem is that comparative testing is easier said than done, at least without the right resources.

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