Behind the Wheel With Cadillac’s High-tech CUE - schneiderfelist

Get behind the wheel of any untried car and you'll quickly grasp the grandness that electronics and gadgetry play in the auto industriousness these days. Companies are starting to put even as more than drive into the entertainment system as the mechanics and that means some jolly advanced rides like the Cadillac XTS.

The before long-to-be-launched sedan packs Cadillac's grandly called Pool stick, or "Cadillac drug user experience" electronics system that mixes navigation and amusement with safety features and part recognition seen in Apple's Siri.

I recently had the chance to test-drive a 2022 Cadillac XTS with the system. (See a video recording of the CUE in use up and the 2022 XTS on YouTube.)

Information technology's centered some an 8-inch, touch-sensitive display at the pinch of the center console, but there are ii separate displays: a digital instrument cluster stern the wheel and a heads-up display that projects navigation directions into the bottom of the driver's field.

The touchscreen controls most of the main entertainment functions — the basic wireles, satellite wireles, navigation system, air conditioning, the endure, and through and through a connected cellphone, the streaming music service Pandora.

Below the screen are a serial publication of touch-sensitive buttons for controlling things like the audio volume and persuasiveness of the air conditioning fan, but the best button is the one at the bottom. Soupco it and the intact lower parcel of the central column — the part underneath the 8-inch screen — lifts rising to reveal a spacious, 1.8-l locker.

There's a USB connector–lit so you don't have to search for it in the drab indoor–so a gadget can be kept plugged in and hidden from view. If it's a phone, the CUE system can access its data connection and route calls hands-free.

Another squeamish feature can be set up along the behind of the main screen. In this space the driver can store shortcuts. These canful personify direct golf links to radio stations, telephone set numbers or navigation destinations, and what's great is that they can personify mixed. So, for example, a couple of front-runner energy stations might sit alongside the address of the office for navigation and two direct-telephone dial shortcuts to home and a Quaker.

Only if you don't want to be bothered with the buttons, there's a voice credit system. Based on technology from Nuance, it's a neat system that worked well during a short test, but its implementation feels a little clunky.

"Gimmick initializing. Command please," it says when the driver hits a button to start vocalism recognition — not quite an atomic number 3 user friendly as Siri's double beep on the iPhone.

Then throughout the process IT feels more like the car is telling you what to say quite than you commanding things by voice.

"What case of destination?"

"Place of interest."

"Name the P-O-I nearby or order change location."

"Food market stores."

"Grocery stores. Correct?"

"Yes."

Perhaps the displays that will most contribute to the feel of the cable car, at least for the driver, are those behind the wheel and on the windshield. Both the instrument panel and heads-up video display are customizable. There are four main designs of control panel to choose from, and they can be further custom with the addition of things comparable a miniskirt-sailing map out or guide to what song is being played.

"Users are starting to expect this," aforementioned Matt Highstrom, interaction couturier at General Motors. "Information technology really gives you more of an unified solution than our past solutions. It introduces that in a very user-friendly fashion thusly we've enforced the electrical phenomenon touchscreen. That lets users quickly navigate through their phone lists, just like they would answer on an iPad device, and customize their layouts. This customization is something that really hasn't been done in our past."

Cadillac has also equipt the number one wood's seat with a vibration system that shakes the seat when the car detects a pedestrian in frontal operating theater behind the car while it's in drive mode. This could be especially actual in places like automobile parks, where there are a lot of masses walking around and cars backing up and turning.

The CUE will be available in 2022 models of some Cadillac cars.

Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Vale and general technology breaking news show for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's email speech is martyn_williams@idg.com

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/460878/behind_the_wheel_with_cadillacs_hightech_cue.html

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