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QuestionPro Acquires Contlo to Advance Agentic Commerce

November 04, 2026 11:00 ET | Source: QuestionPro QuestionPro AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QuestionPro, a global provider of survey, research and experience management technology, today announced it has acquired Contlo, an AI-native marketing and customer engagement platform for e-commerce brands. The deal lays…

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The car has become a computer that happens to have wheels. Cameras, radar and sometimes lidar watch the road, software keeps the vehicle centered in its lane and holds a gap to traffic, and over-the-air updates can change how a car drives while it sits in the garage overnight. That shift is the most significant change in the automobile since electronic fuel injection, and it raises big questions about who, or what, is really in control. This page follows driver-assistance systems, self-driving ambitions and the software behind them.

Engineers describe autonomy in levels, from zero, a purely human-driven car, to five, a vehicle that can drive anywhere without help, a scale set out by SAE International. Most systems on sale sit at level two: they steer, brake and accelerate, but the driver must supervise. Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving, General Motors' Super Cruise and Ford's BlueCruise made hands-free or near-hands-free highway driving familiar, while Mercedes-Benz won approval for a level three system that lets drivers look away in limited conditions in parts of Germany and the United States.

The arguments are as much about names and human behavior as about sensors. Regulators have investigated crashes involving partially automated cars, critics say marketing overstates what systems can do, and research shows drivers drift into complacency when the car does most of the work. At the same time automatic emergency braking and blind-spot monitoring have proven their worth, and automakers are reorganizing around software-defined vehicles, with centralized computers, subscription features and a rising reliance on chips and artificial intelligence.

Expect coverage of new system launches and updates, investigations and recalls, camera-versus-lidar debates, chip and software partnerships and the business of selling features by subscription. Fully driverless taxis have their own page next door; this one covers the technology steadily creeping into everyday cars. For buyers, the useful questions are practical ones: which systems genuinely reduce fatigue on long trips, which demand constant vigilance, what happens when a subscription lapses, and how quickly an automaker fixes problems once regulators come calling.

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Autopilot, Super Cruise, Full Self-Driving and the software-defined car: driver assistance, autonomy levels, over-the-air updates and their limits.

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