New York (AFP) — General Motors announced plans Wednesday to incorporate Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence platform into vehicles and to launch a vehicle capable of “eyes-off” driving in 2028.

At an event dubbed “GM Forward,” the giant US automaker said Gemini would enable drivers to “talk to your car as naturally as you would to a fellow passenger,” while the Cadillac Escalade would be capable of “eyes-off driving” in three years.

GM said it had already mapped 600,000 miles of “hands-free” roads in North America for its “Super Cruise” technology, which requires an attentive driver, “without a single reported crash attributed to the system.”

Now it is promising to add eyes-off to hands-free.

“This combination of technology, scale, a decade of real-world deployment experience, and

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