Cruise aims to bring driverless tech to life in 2015
The old saying why reinvent the wheel will resonate with the coming debut of Cruise technology in certain cars on certain roads next year. The motivating question would be, Why wait to buy a totally driverless car when you can keep the car you have, but just add on a system that turns it into driverless mode in stop-and-go traffic on long commutes? Cruise has built a highway autopilot system, the RP-1-which can be fit into your existing vehicle, giving it driverless functions. The RP-1 is a highway autopilot which can control steering, throttle, and braking. This is not a full driverless car like the one Google has been working on but rather the Cruise team has provided driverless technologies designed to perform driverless functions such as keeping the car at a safe distance from the car in front of you and positioned in the center of its lane.