- This is from Edmunds.
And Edmunds, if you don't know,
I'm actually a big fan of their
true cost of ownership calculators.
One of the best things out there to understand
the true cost of owning a vehicle.
And they've been doing some YouTube stuff lately.
It's pretty cool.
I didn't even know they had a channel.
But these guys do a great job.
Here in this video, they're comparing
the Tesla Model Three, Long Range,
kind of the early edition with the Cadillac Super Cruise,
and the Cadillac Super Cruise, is,
was just rated as the best one.
But the best kind of driver assist features.
Now the big difference between them is that one
is a hands-on and the other is a hands-off system.
So Dan here is driving the actual hands,
the Super Cruise, the Cadillac.
And this is a hands-off system, where on the steering wheel,
I don't know if we'll get a shot of it here.
It's actually monitoring your eyeballs.
He even puts glasses on and looks away.
And sunglasses on and looks away.
And notices that he's looking away
and then it tells him,
it gives him warnings to take the wheel.
Where, as of course, the Model Three
is a hands-on system, not a hands-off.
And so it's, you know, a bit different.
You don't get as much convenience because
you have to keep your hands on the wheel.
But you also don't have this crazy monitoring
in these things as you do in this car.
Now, the one of the big points you can see
the map right here is that with the Cadillac Super Cruiser,
it only works on certain freeways that they have mapped.
Now I think this is a good strategy.
And I know that other companies are working to do this.
Essentially, if you had extremely detailed maps of
all the roads, then it wouldn't be that hard to,
kind of, hard code, we would say in the programming world,
how the car should drive, right.
It's easy to detect objects around you
if you know exactly where the road is going.
It's super, super straight-forward.
However, I don't think that's a very scalable solution.
Perhaps if there are way to automatically do this
with every car on the road or something.
It would work.
But I'm not sure the mapping technology of, like,
requiring a detailed map is
really a truly scalable solution.
It's definitely not AI and neuro-networks
and all the stuff that Tesla's doing.
So I would say, even if it works better based on that one
website rating, or whatever.
It's still very, it's less ambitious.
And in the long run, not gonna be nearly as
as a,
as valuable, as accurate, right.
They're basically not doing,
they're kind of masking,
they're simulating the same idea
of what Tesla's trying to do.
Tesla's actually doing something
that's pushing the boundary.
So, I think it's good.
I think it's great that we have these driver assist features
because I think that'll help keep us safer.
But it doesn't seem like that is gonna get us
to fully autonomous vehicles any time soon.
Of course, in this test, the autopilot on the freeway
works great and then on surface streets it doesn't.
Surprise, surprise.
If you guys have tried that, you'll know that often,
surface streets have big bumps and sharp turns and things
that are just not very, it's just not very good at.
This also being an early edition Model Three.
This is before they did the most
recent round of upgrades to the software.
So yeah, I just wanted to talk about this video
because I thought it was, I thought it was really well done.
And it was very interesting to me
to learn more about the Super Cruise.
And I thought you guys would be interested in that, as well.
I don't really,
you know, do this as like a,
them versus them, you know,
anything like that.
Like Tesla and everyone else sucks, kind of thing.
I think it's great that we're all kind
of working on these kind of things, so yeah.
Yeah, let me know what you think in the comments down below.
And if you guys haven't seen this video,
I'll put a link to it because
I do think it's worth watching
and obviously, Edmunds pretty, you know,
reputable brand in the auto industry
and it's been around for a long time.
So you know, you know that this
is gonna be high quality stuff, so.
They also give you some interesting ideas about angles
to shoot for my own videos coming soon.