During the great fully analog and fully human version of Mattel Football which was played yesterday to a crowd of mixed people and scraps of cardboard people, several car manufacturers paid a lot of money to earn small, tasteless films who were confident in starting a chain of events that would end with the purchase of a car. The Cadillac entry was for them next electric Lyriq SUV, and was the son of one of modern culture most famous artificial humans with hand cutlery. It also contributed to the potentially dangerous misinformation surrounding it Current level 2 driver assistance systems.
In case you haven’t had a chance to see the Cadillac ad, here it is. I guess I can only bill GM to show it here? I want to examine it:
Now, even before you get to the car issues here, if you remotely know Tim Burton’s 1990 film Edward Scissorhands, you will notice that there are many things that do not make sense here.
The main character, the one who looks almost exactly like the titular Edward of the original film, is, in fact, Edgar Scissorhands, involved being the son of the original Edward, the man invented with the leaves who took advice on makeup and hair Bob Smith of the Cure.
Similarly, the mother is understood to be the blonde character in Winona Ryder’s original, Kim, which is where things get confused, as at the end of the original film, Kim had helped fake it. the death of Edward and apparently had come to live a full life nearby but without any real contact with him.
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Look, it’s all here at the end of the movie:
So someone here is lie down. Now, if we say, okay, what the hell, it’s just an ad, so let’s say Kim and Edward did get together and have a child, this also raises all sorts of questions.
Remember that Edward was built by an inventor as a kind of android, an inventor who made some very negative decisions about what kind of temporary mechanical hands would be most useful until a human pair was completed.
Those complicated, dangerous, multi-bladed hands turned out to be a kind of terrible choice, but the inventor was clearly very skilled: Edward was not only a high-functioning entity, with emotions and cognitive abilities close to human beings. . but, if you want to believe this commercial for Cadillac, did it also have a fully functional human reproductive system? With sperm that somehow carried DNA information from the hands of mechanical scissors?
And, if true, I hope Kim Scissorhands had a cesarean. Actually, based on the child’s anatomy, perhaps it would have been the only possible outcome, possibly initiated by the child? There are there are all sorts of worrying problems here.
But then again, it’s just a commercial. Really well. We see in the ad that Edgar, despite being clearly skilled with scissor hands, has a lot of trouble handling many basic human tools and equipment: pulling cords on buses, grabbing foosballs, pressing buttons, fences, and so on.
Now we see him driving the Lyriq nervously. He seems to have some kind of human hand under all these leaves, although when it comes to a task where we will choose a finger, pressing a button, he does select a large blade to do the job:
At this point, the SuperCruise system takes over and, because it uses a camera to track the driver’s eyes to confirm that proper attention is being paid to the road, which is different from systems like Tesla’s autopilot, which use a torque sensor on the steering wheel to confirm that there is a lit hand. the wheel.
Now, the message being sent here is pretty clear and that’s the part I have a problem with: GM says that, well, even if you have massive aggregations of hand knives that make normal driving almost impossible, it’s well because SuperCruise means you you don’t even have to touch the wheel!
The problem here is that, like all level 2 driver assistance systems, even if you don’t need to touch the steering wheel or the car’s controls while running, it can still stop working and require the driver to take care of the warning from scratch and if that happened to Edgar there at road speed, I guess at best he would end up having a scream and silliness and at worst with hot-blooded geysers scattering from everyone in the front seat and probably some scratched LCDs. and torn Alicante.
Also, you’ve seen the door handles al Lyriq? There is no way Edgar will open them. And if you try, this paint job is boned.
This ad only feeds on the myth, the same myth that Tesla has been feeding on terms like “Autopilot“I”Complete autonomous driving”That the level 2 driver assistance systems are autonomous and autonomous systems. They are not.
As we said before, level 2 systems are intrinsically flawed not for technological reasons, but for reasons of the human brain: people just aren’t good at this kind of “surveillance job” and anything that requires people to take control without warning or warning has deep problems.
This ad is pretty nice and would be ideal for a level 3 or higher system that has some type of system failover / elegant transfer system instead, but it doesn’t.
Cadillac has not yet solved this problem and neither has Tesla. While Cadillac’s eye-tracking camera system can be harder to fool than Tesla’s, if you have massive shears on all hands, you’ll still have so much trouble controlling a car, though thanks to SuperCruise , you may find yourself having problems at much higher speeds and much farther from where you started, so that’s one thing.
With knife hands or not, ads like these make the public believe that it’s not a car and that autonomy is beyond what it is, and that’s a recipe for trouble.
Also, do scissors men have skin under their skin? Or is it that the skin?