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Hands-Free Driving
Local engineer's expertise
helps guide GM's
SuperCruise project.
Barbara Lewis I Contributing Writer
I
'm sitting in a souped-up Cadillac SRX, driving
at 60 miles per hour around a curving highway
with my feet flat on the floor and not on the gas
pedal.
I'm used to this, having had cruise control in my
car for many years. But now my hands are planted
on my knees and not on the steering wheel. This is
something new.
The car stays in its lane and approaches another
car going 50 mph. The SRX slows to 50. When the
other car pulls over, my car accelerates back up to 60.
You won't be able to try this at home, at least not
for several more years. The SRX is a General Motors
test vehicle, and I am driving it on the circular test
track at the GM Proving Grounds in Milford.
With me is Jeremy Salinger of Southfield, an engi-
neer and lab group manager at GM, who is one of
the lead innovators of SuperCruise, GM's name for
the semi-automated driving technology it hopes to
have on the market by 2020.
All the driver has to do is guide the car into a
lane, accelerate to the desired speed and hit the self-
drive button. The car takes it from there, staying in
Jeremy Salinger takes the semi-automated GM SuperCruise for a ride on the company track.
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Survivors'
Stories
Henry Upfall, 101, realizes the
importance of his story to
future generations.
At 101, Henry Upfall of West Bloomfield is Metro
Detroit's oldest living Holocaust survivor.
Stacy Gittleman I Contributing Writer
1942 - 2013
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n the weeks leading up to his 101st birthday on April 14,
Henry Upfall was hoping to start a men's poker night at
Meer Apartments in West Bloomfield, where he lives. Just
returning from spending the winter at his condominium in
Florida, he missed his regular poker game at the clubhouse,
and the ladies at Meer won't deal the men into their game.
According to his devoted daughter, Dina Pinsky of
Bloomfield Hills, Upfall believes in living in the present
by making new friends and maintaining close family ties.
Pinsky adorns his apartment with plenty of family photos of
Upfall's late wife, Dora, their children, six grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.
His daughter said living in the present — loving life, sur-
rounding themselves with family, friends and many social
gatherings — was the way her parents coped with the very
dark past of surviving the Holocaust.
At 101, Upfall is Metro Detroit's oldest living Holocaust
survivor. Like many children and grandchildren of Holocaust
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