Cadillac's Super Cruise: Going Handsfree on the Highway

Text and photos by Emily Chung.

Cadillac has introduced Super Cruise, the world’s first handsfree driving technology for the highway. This system allows drivers to let go of the wheel (and pedals) on divided, limited-access freeways with defined on and off ramps. Essentially, ‘limited-access’ means that the freeways have controlled access, which include the provincial highways (e.g. 400-series highways in Ontario). Cadillac engineers have validated and mapped over 210,000 kilometres of highways and freeways in Canada and the US for the system. Hit jump for our hands on, or rather, hands off this impressive new autonomous driving technology.

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Overview: Huawei P20 creates its own smartphone category

Text and photos by Emily Chung

The new Huawei P20 and P20Pro have come out as  solutions for consumers who want the high quality photos of a digital camera within their smartphone. This is one of the first AI powered camera available in a smartphone, and Huawei makes it very clear that it’s not trying to compete in the traditional smartphone category. They’ve gone beyond that, offering Leica’s triple camera system on the P20 Pro.

This system also achieved the highest overall DxOMark Score of 109. Huawei is making the distinction between their ‘professional photography’ versus ‘smartphone photography’ that's available with other brands.

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2019 GMC Sierra: This is how to multi-purpose #LikeAPro

Text and photos by Emily Chung

I love it when innovation happens in a vehicle – when we take something that already exists and make it so much better. When I think about pickup trucks, I want to know how useful it is to me. In contrast, the performance cars… how fun it is to drive. Full-size sedans… how practical is this for my family? For the 2019 GMC Sierra, I had high expectations as this is one of my favourite trucks already. What new thing could they bring to the table?

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Review: 2018 Toyota C-HR

Text and photos By Emily Chung

The all-new 2018 Toyota C-HR (Compact High Rider) comes on the market with a unique design, lots of standard features, and the starting price is under $25,000 CAD. Hit jump for our review.

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