During the great all-analog, human version of Mattel Football which was played yesterday to mixed crowd people and cardboard cut of people, a number of car manufacturers paid a lot of money to earn small, cunning movies that they were hoping to get a series of events going on that would end with the purchase of a car. Cadillac’s entry was for them upcoming Lyriq electric sport utility vehicle, and appears the son of one of the modern cultures most famous artificial people with cutlery for hands. It also contributed to the potentially dangerous misinformation surrounding current level 2 driver assistance systems.
If you do not get a chance to see Cadillac’s ad, go for it. I think I can just bill GM to show it here? I will look into it:
Now, even before we get to the car issues here, if you’re familiar with Tim Burton’s 1990 film Edward Scissorhands, you will notice that there are many here that do not make sense.
The main character there, the one who looks very exactly like the titular (dazzling) Edward from the original film, is in fact Edgar Scissorhands, implied that he is the son of the original Edward, the man with the blade who was invented, who received advice from hair and makeup Bob Smith of the drug.
The mother is also implicated as Winona Ryder’s uncharacteristic blonde character from the original Kim, this is where things get confusing, as Kim helped end Edward’s death at the end of the original film and apparently 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 is here lie. If we say, okay, what is it, it’s just an advertisement, so let’s say Kim and Edward done get together and have a son, it also raises all kinds of questions.
Remember, Edward was built by an inventor as a kind of Android, an inventor who made remarkably bad decisions about what kind of temporary mechanical hands would be most useful until a truly human-like pair was completed:
Those intricate, dangerous hands with more leaves turned out to be a terrible choice, but the inventor was clearly highly skilled: not only was Edward a functioning entity with almost human emotions and cognitive abilities. but, if one can believe this Cadillac ad, was it also in possession of a fully functioning human reproductive system? With sperm that somehow contains the DNA information for mechanical shear hands?
And if that’s true, I’m sure Kim Scissorhands had an emperor. Actually, based on the anatomy of the child, might this be the only possible outcome, possibly initiated by the child? There is all sorts of troubling issues here.
But again, this is just an advertisement. Well. We see in the ad that Edgar, although clearly skilled with his scissor hands, is having a lot of trouble using very basic human tools and equipment: pulling ropes in buses, catching socks, getting buttons, fences, and so on.
Now we see how he drives the Lyriq nervously. It looks like he has some kind of human hands under all the blades, but when it comes to a task where we would pick a finger, we press a button, he does pick a large blade around the work to do:
At this point, the SuperCruise system takes over, and because it uses a camera to track the driver’s eyes to confirm that adequate attention is being paid to the road, unlike systems such as Tesla’s Autopilot, which uses a torque sensor in the steering wheel to to confirm that a hand is on the wheel.
Now, the message sent here is pretty clear and that’s the part I’m having a problem with: GM says that, hey, even if you have massive knives for hands that make normal driving almost impossible, it’s good because SuperCruise you do not even have to touch the wheel!
The problem here is that, just like all level 2 driver assistance systems, even if it is not necessary to touch the steering wheel or car buttons while working, it can still stop working and demand that the driver take over without warning, and if it with Edgar happening there at highway speeds, I would guess at best, it would end up with a clatter and stumble, and at worst with hot blood sprayers from everyone in the front seat and probably some scratched LCDs. and torn alacantara.
Did you also see the door handles? on the Lyriq? Edgar can not open it. And if he tries, that paint job is deboned.
This ad only introduces into the myth, the same myth that Tesla carried with terms like ‘Car Driver“And”Full self-management”That level 2 driver assistance systems are autonomous, self-governing systems. They are not.
As already stated, level 2 systems are inherently not flawed for technological reasons, but for human brain reasons: people are just not good at these kinds of “vigilance tasks” and anything that requires people to take over without notice or warning has deep problems.
This ad is cute enough and would be ideal for a level 3 or higher system with some sort of failover / elegant handover system in place, but it does not.
Cadillac has not yet solved the problem, and neither has Tesla. Although Cadillac’s eye-catching camera system may be more difficult than that of Tesla, you will still have as much trouble controlling a car if you have massive scissors all over you, but thanks to SuperCruise you may find yourself having problems with much higher speeds and many further from where you started, so that’s something.
Knife or not, ads like this make the public who do not have cars believe that autonomy is beyond what it is, and that it is a recipe for trouble.
Do the Scissorhands men also have skin under the leather? Or is that the skin?