This Is Cadillac's Self-Driving Lounge, the SocialSpace
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Speaker 1: Nope, this isn't the back half of a cube van. Gued up with a fancy paint drop and some L E D strips. It's actually a Cadillac concept vehicle and it's called the social space. This thing was virtually unveiled at last year's consumer electronic show. And this is our first up close at and personal look at this vehicle. And I gotta tell ya, it's pretty fricking cool
Speaker 1: Along with the Innerspace and personal space, this autonomous [00:00:30] minibus part of the Cadillac halo concept portfolio. This trio of vehicles is a vision of what transportation could look like in the next decade and beyond resembling a small train cards, kind of hard to tell which end is the front and which is the back. The social space is fully self-driving and has room for up to six people in its beautifully trimmed cabin. How about that? This interior is super spacious and it is richly trimmed. Of course, we've got responsible [00:01:00] and sustainably sourced mat materials. There's amazing American wall, that wood on the floor here that also runs up along the rear of the vehicle. There's a drinks cooler that comes with some glasses as well. So you can, I guess, pregame, before you go out clubbing, very nice touch there and then clip in just like that. And then up at the front, we've got the, uh, the signature feature, perhaps that's called the humidifier. It's a, a series of L E D lights that shine up through a water vapor mist and creates a very [00:01:30] cool visual effect. You also get some lovely throw pillows, and this is like traveling first class. I could get used to this,
Speaker 1: A rolling sanctuary. This vehicle is designed to allow passengers to lacks and recharge as the vehicle shuttles them to their destination. Be it a fancy restaurant, a polo match, or maybe even to court for an arraignment, biometric sensors, help enhance your wellbeing, adjusting the cabins, temperature, lighting, ambient noise, and even aeromatics [00:02:00] sounds like the social space can mask unpleasant odors, go ahead and eat as much garlic bread as you want.
Speaker 2: You know,
Speaker 1: The idea of a self-driving pod car is to me kind lame, but I'm really impressed by what Cadillac has done here. That interior is amazing. This vehicle has some really clever features. Now, if they'd only fit it with a supercharged LT, four V8, then we'd be talking G is investing billions of dollars in autonomous and electric vehicle technologies. And [00:02:30] if anyone can succeed at building a self-driving car, it could very well be GM. I mean the automakers super crews hands-free driving aid is already a technological triumphant ultra crews promises to do even more. So looking down the road five or 10 years, we might be shuttled around in a vehicle like the social space a lot sooner than you might expect.
