At the recent Stellantis Investor Day event, the company was keen to show off how hip and cool its future tech would be by demonstrating early examples of its impending software-defined vehicle electronic architecture coming to next-gen Dodge, Ram, Chrysler, Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, and Fiat vehicles in the U.S. The demo really was as simple as A-B-C, giving us a taste of what’s to come as Stellantis rolls out STLA AutoDrive, STLA Brain, and STLA (Smart) Cockpit … you see what we did there?

This is Stellantis’ next-generation ADAS platform, meaning it will be the company’s answer to GM Super Cruise, Ford BlueCruise, Tesla AutoPilot, and others. To begin with, this in-house-developed system will be a refinement of today’s hand-free level-two-plus system (that’s Jeep and Ram’s existing Active Driving Assist). The added computing horsepower will first double and later quadruple the average time between requests for driver intervention, from 10 to 20 and then 40 minutes, and some system of hands-on-the-wheel sensing (probably capacitive) will be incorporated to prevent those aggravating requests to “steer” when your hands are already on the wheel.