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Infotainment systems continue to evolve and with each passing model year, become more and more integral selling points for modern vehicles.
That is especially true for luxury vehicles, which is why General Motors has made a unique decision to equip the Cadillacbrand its very own, all-new, highly advanced telematics program starting in 2012.
“CUE will transform personal transportation by simply and efficiently integrating luxury design and instinctive technology with unparalleled levels of customized in-vehicle connectivity,” said Don Butler, vice president, Cadillac marketing.
CUE will first appear in the market place in the 2012 ATS and XTS sedans, as well as the SRX crossover. GM says that this all-new infotainment approach is intended to simultaneously satisfy both the “simple” and “super” users, offering infotainment, navigation, communication and vehicle control features through and advanced tactile-feedback capable touch-screen – all with 3.5 times the processing power of most systems used today.
The system is intended to simply vehicle operation while minimizing distractions to the driver, accomplishing this by combining 20 buttons into just four, providing an intuitive user interface, tactile feedback and an experience not all that unfamiliar from many touchscreen smartphones of today.
Front and center in the system is an eight-inch LCD touch screen, located above a motorized faceplate that hides a 1.8-liter storage area, intended to store phones, MP3 players and other wireless devices. The system then connects to these devices and gives the driver access to their functions through the large screen, rather than fumbling through and looking down at individual devices.
According to GM, CUE will introduce a handful of industry firsts:
1.) Proximity Sensing: As the user’s hand approaches the LCD screen, command icons appear. Icons can be customized and arranged by consumers to improve ease of use.
2.) Haptic Feedback: Buttons on the fully capacitive faceplate pulse when pressed to acknowledge the driver’s commands and helps keep the driver’s eyes on the road.
3.) Multi-Touch Hand Gestures: interactive motions (tap, flick, swipe and spread) popularized by smartphones and tablets allow tasks on the LCD screen, such as scrolling lists, zooming maps and searching favorites to be easily accomplished.
4.) 12.3-inch LCD reconfigurable gauge cluster (on select models): Offers four selectable displays – Simple, Enhanced, Balanced and Performance – that can mix traditional vehicle data such as a speedometer and fuel gauge with navigation, entertainment and 3D vehicle image.
5.) Natural Speech Recognition: Lets consumers speak logically with fewer specific commands to recall stored media or input navigation destinations. CUE’s text-to-speech feature will also allow consumers to receive text messages by system voice and to send recorded text messages in return.
6.) Linux operating system: “Open” software platform and ARM 11 3-core processor, each operating at 400 million of instructions (mips) per second. This hardware setup offers 3.5 times more processing power than current infotainment systems, and allow developers to write applications to CUE that be downloaded by consumers.
How did CUE come about?
GM says that the development of CUE can actually be traced back to 2008 when the automaker began riding along with 32 customers for six months each in order to observe their habits, movements and uses of the vehicle. Those observation formed the basis for what eventually became the CUE system unveiled today.
The LCD screen, as a result, features the top-five most used functions for the specific driver in an always accessible short list across the top of the eight-inch touch screen. Along the bottom users will find up to 60 different “favorites,” also customizable by the driver. These apps and functions can be assigned custom names, as well.
Drivers can also control the system with a five-way controller mounted to the steering wheel, tied to screen navigation, volume and cycling through favorites. Of course, the system also allows for voice recognition and wireless phone syncing, along with integrated OnStar functionality.
That is especially true for luxury vehicles, which is why General Motors has made a unique decision to equip the Cadillacbrand its very own, all-new, highly advanced telematics program starting in 2012.
“CUE will transform personal transportation by simply and efficiently integrating luxury design and instinctive technology with unparalleled levels of customized in-vehicle connectivity,” said Don Butler, vice president, Cadillac marketing.
CUE will first appear in the market place in the 2012 ATS and XTS sedans, as well as the SRX crossover. GM says that this all-new infotainment approach is intended to simultaneously satisfy both the “simple” and “super” users, offering infotainment, navigation, communication and vehicle control features through and advanced tactile-feedback capable touch-screen – all with 3.5 times the processing power of most systems used today.
The system is intended to simply vehicle operation while minimizing distractions to the driver, accomplishing this by combining 20 buttons into just four, providing an intuitive user interface, tactile feedback and an experience not all that unfamiliar from many touchscreen smartphones of today.
Front and center in the system is an eight-inch LCD touch screen, located above a motorized faceplate that hides a 1.8-liter storage area, intended to store phones, MP3 players and other wireless devices. The system then connects to these devices and gives the driver access to their functions through the large screen, rather than fumbling through and looking down at individual devices.
According to GM, CUE will introduce a handful of industry firsts:
1.) Proximity Sensing: As the user’s hand approaches the LCD screen, command icons appear. Icons can be customized and arranged by consumers to improve ease of use.
2.) Haptic Feedback: Buttons on the fully capacitive faceplate pulse when pressed to acknowledge the driver’s commands and helps keep the driver’s eyes on the road.
3.) Multi-Touch Hand Gestures: interactive motions (tap, flick, swipe and spread) popularized by smartphones and tablets allow tasks on the LCD screen, such as scrolling lists, zooming maps and searching favorites to be easily accomplished.
4.) 12.3-inch LCD reconfigurable gauge cluster (on select models): Offers four selectable displays – Simple, Enhanced, Balanced and Performance – that can mix traditional vehicle data such as a speedometer and fuel gauge with navigation, entertainment and 3D vehicle image.
5.) Natural Speech Recognition: Lets consumers speak logically with fewer specific commands to recall stored media or input navigation destinations. CUE’s text-to-speech feature will also allow consumers to receive text messages by system voice and to send recorded text messages in return.
6.) Linux operating system: “Open” software platform and ARM 11 3-core processor, each operating at 400 million of instructions (mips) per second. This hardware setup offers 3.5 times more processing power than current infotainment systems, and allow developers to write applications to CUE that be downloaded by consumers.
How did CUE come about?
GM says that the development of CUE can actually be traced back to 2008 when the automaker began riding along with 32 customers for six months each in order to observe their habits, movements and uses of the vehicle. Those observation formed the basis for what eventually became the CUE system unveiled today.
The LCD screen, as a result, features the top-five most used functions for the specific driver in an always accessible short list across the top of the eight-inch touch screen. Along the bottom users will find up to 60 different “favorites,” also customizable by the driver. These apps and functions can be assigned custom names, as well.
Drivers can also control the system with a five-way controller mounted to the steering wheel, tied to screen navigation, volume and cycling through favorites. Of course, the system also allows for voice recognition and wireless phone syncing, along with integrated OnStar functionality.
