OnStar AI: General Motors wants to turn the car into a personal assistant, starting with the Cadillac Lyriq 2027

During GM Forward, the manufacturer introduced a voice assistant capable of driving the vehicle's functions, promised the organization of the daily, and announced the extension of his "eyes-off" driving.

General Motors unveiled on October 21 in New York City, at its annual GM Forward event, an on-board assistant named OnStar AI, which takes the name of its 30-year-old, 12 million-strong roadside assistance service. It will first be proposed on the Cadillac Lyriq vintage 2027, accompanied by a new application. First, it will allow you to control the vehicle's functions, such as air conditioning, without going through menus, and to launch diagnostics. In the longer term, the manager produces Sterling Anderson imagines an assistant able, for example, to distribute the trips to pick up the children according to the car of the nearest home.

The manufacturer also says he wants to use AI to halve the development time of a new model, now four to five years old, to match the pace of Chinese manufacturers. He plans to extend his "eyes-off" driving on highway, which allows us to leave the road from the eyes, to his most sold models, while it was previously announced for the Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028. Sterling Anderson, passed by the Tesla Autopilot, opposes this gradual extension, road by road, to the supervised driving of Tesla, which according to him gives "the illusion of autonomy without its benefits".