Cadillac is updating its in-car entertainment system for 2012 with a smartphone-like multi-touchscreen, screen layout as well as some advanced features that are driven by a triple-core processor.
Called CUE, short for Cadillac User Experience, the system is based on an 8-inch capacitive touch screen on the front-end, as well as an ARM 11 triple-core processor that is used to run a Linux-based entertainment platform. Cadillac said that the processor is about three times as capable as the chip used in its current entertainment system and is able to process about 400 MIPS. According to the car manufacturer, CUE will support the parallel input of up to 10 Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices, USBs, SD cards and MP3 players.
The user will control input and output via a high-resolution touch screen that can supports touch gestures such as tapping and swiping. With the help of a proximity sensor, the interface layout changes as a hand approaches the display; integrated haptic feedback is designed to improved the usability of the system. Thanks to the more powerful processor, there are some advanced features in CUE, including natural voice recognition, which is, for example, used for responding to text messages that are translated between text and voice.
There was no information how much CUE will cost, but we know that the system will initially debut in the upcoming XTS and ATS sedans as well as in the SRX crossover.
This has voice recognition, not just text to speech. So this reads the incoming messages, then listens to your reply, types it out for you, and then sends it off for you. Get it now?
I am a used car mechanic with 15 years experience that works on all kinds of cars to recondition them for sale at a large California Toyota dealership and I can tell you that in spite of the rhetoric that the Germans tell you about their cars most of them are crap. Most customers trade them because they can no longer afford to maintain them beyond about 80-90,000 miles. At that mileage most of the German cars are completely falling apart with multiple expensive problems. Most of the German trade in we get we end up selling a a wholesale auction because they are too costly to repair, just the cost of brakes is more than $3000 (no exaggeration) and we would make no profit on them.
If you want real long term quality try Toyota, Honda, GM brands except Chevrolet, or some higher end Chrysler. Most of those will last you about 200k if they are well maintained, and at a price far cheaper than any Euro brand.
Right after they patent "Driving a car" and "Talking in a car" and "Using a car radio".
Mhm, you need to buy some cars and do your research. We had a 92 Buick Park Avenue with the 3800 and 4 speed auto and it had 198k when we sold it, 100% original besides maintenance.
I had a 2001 Sable with 184k when I sold it. The engine 3.0 Vulcan V6 and AX4N tranny were in excellent condition and it still got 22+ mpg year round with my aggressive driving.
I've currently got a 2002 LS V6 with the 3.0 Duratec. 64k miles, drivetrain, interior, and body are in excellent condition and it hasn't had any major failures besides a window regulator and some damage due to a front-end collision before I bought it.
If you take good care of your cars they'll last a very long time, regardless of most branding. Stay away form obvious problems like mixed metal engines and vehicles with expensive parts (Audi, VW, etc).
how do you explain my 2001 vw jetta vr6 with 150k miles and no problems at all, what about my parents 1979 mercedes (diesel engine) with over 300k miles and no issues, when it come to mechanical components the germans know how to build them, like them or not they are superior....american cars are made to be replaced every 5 years....my 2009 jeep grand cherockee drives and sounds inferior when i compare it with an bmw m3 or even a vw tiguan...don't even get me started when it comes to the diesel engines
I have been looking at some Mercedes, and back in 1979, the average person could do standard maintenance on them, if you buy any newer model, you pay through the noise just to do an oil change. German Engineer is not all its cracked up to be.... It still goes back to how the car is maintained by the owner, and it is so much simpler on non-german engineered cars.
The late 70s early 80s diesel cars are what Mercedes built their reputation on. Sadly, they no longer make them like that.
I know a service writer at the 2nd largest Benz dealer So Cal and he has dozens of stories of customers who owned those cars and then have traded them in on a new equivalent Mercedes and how they have been so completely disappointed in their new car that they only owned for only a short time and then got rid of them for Cadillacs or Japanese luxury cars.