The Globe and Mail (CAN) (1/19, Paddon) reported Steve Carlisle, the CEO of General Motors of Canada, revealed on Friday that the company “sees Ontario’s strength in advanced technologies as strategically important for its plans for creating safe, driverless vehicles in the near future…at the launch of a new software centre north of Toronto.” Carlisle stated the team “in Markham has worked on what we call Super Cruise, which is an automated driving technology we have in our Cadillac CT6s today” and he “said the Markham team is already involved in the next generation of infotainment systems, which are finding their way into the products on the road, and a driverless car pilot project that GM wants to run in 2019.”
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