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    Tesla, Volvo, Cadillac: Which semi-automated driving system is best?

    by Robert Duffer, Chicago Tribune Oct 20, 2017 5 minutes

    Nearly 60 years ago, Chrysler introduced the first semi-automated driving feature in the 1958 Imperial. That cutting-edge land shark featured a convenience known as cruise control.

    The dream of the self-driving car has shifted into reality and it won't take another 60 years to have a car that can drive itself; Ford, Volvo, GM and other automakers - and nonautomakers such as Apple, Uber and Google's Waymo - are planning in the next five years for at least Level 4 automation in which the human driver does not have to intervene.

    The old Imperial was considered Level 1. Level 5 is fully automated driving under all roadways and conditions.

    But what are these systems and how do they work? Now nearly every automaker offers the basis for semi-automated driving with cameras

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