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To make matters interesting, the back seat of the car was filled to capacity with oversized helium balloons which essentially completed obstructed the traditional rear-view mirror. You could use the back-up camera and the dashboard display, the side- and front-mounted cameras which also show on the dashboard display and show sort of a 360-degree view of the Traverse from above, and the new rear-view mirror display. The Traverse in Reverse was an obstacle (funny, I accidentally wrote “optical” which is appropriate as well) course where you could only navigate in reverse using the built-in cameras. (I used the camera version for the entire trip and it was truly difficult to go back to my old mirror.) By simply flipping a lever (the way you do on old-fashioned mirrors to avoid high-beam glare), the “mirror” alternates between a traditional rear-view mirror and the video output from the rear camera. But, what this new feature does is it adds another, high-definition camera to the mix.Īnd, instead of displaying it on your dashboard, the video takes over your rear-view mirror. When shifting into reverse, a monitor shows the view from a rear-mounted camera. We all know about rear view cameras that help us navigate when backing up. And this is probably my most favorite of all of the features. One of the new features of the 2018 Traverse is the rear view mirror camera. The demonstration I liked the best was called “Traverse in Reverse”. While this feature is not triggered by weight on the seat, it’s more general implementation simply using back door sensors is probably more effective. There have been far too many child, infant, and pet deaths as a result of forgetting they are in the back and leaving the car to heat up in the sun. This is a great feature to have, I feel, particularly if you have kids (or pets). If you open up the rear door for longer than a certain amount of time (like the time it takes to strap a child into a car seat or put groceries into the back seat or let a dog into the car), when you eventually reach your destination and turn off the Traverse to exit, there is an audible and dashboard alert reminding you to check the rear seats. This demo was also designed to introduce a new safety feature which is essentially a safety reminder. It can be sometimes 20 to 30 degrees hotter inside, putting children and pets in critically dangerous heat levels.

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One showed how hot a car’s internal temperature can go with the windows closed. Outside in the attached lot, there were a couple of other demos. I learned about crumble zones and the protective cage that secures occupants in the event of a collision. I learned about all of the various types of steel and alloys that were used to strengthen the Traverse while also making it lighter weight. With an SUV, the frame is pretty similar (if not identical) to a truck while a crossover is manufactured specifically for that type of body style. It is classified as a Crossover instead of an SUV, but you would be surprised that the Traverse ISN’T an SUV despite the seating capacity of 7-8 and a huge cargo space. While my family relaxed, I learned about how the 2018 Traverse had been completely redesigned for this new model year. There was a full-size clay model of the 2018 Traverse which was so life-like, it was hard to tell the difference.Īnd, there were sitting areas and a taco truck, and to my kids’ surprise, an ice cream truck. Throughout Shed 5, which was originally a market that first opened in 1841 and is now a general and flea market, there were cutouts of engines, storage capacity demos, safety showcases, clay models, and more. When we arrived, we were immediately whisked over to Shed 5 in the Eastern Market in Detroit where a variety of feature demos of the new 2018 Traverse was waiting to educate us. But for the most part, this trip was all about new places, new roads, and, of course, the new 2018 Chevy Traverse.

Also, I had recently visited Detroit to learn more about OnStar. While I was born in the Midwest and lived there for almost a decade as a child, this was the first time my kids had been there.

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Chevy’s current tag line (which you have probably heard on tv or radio) is “finding new roads” and this is exactly what my family and I did in a part of America that we don’t know that well. We even appropriately spent 2 nights in Traverse City, MI, right on Lake Michigan. The 2018 Chevy Traverse was recently released and it has undergone a rather nice transformation, particularly if you are looking for a family-oriented crossover! And, I was lucky enough to be invited out to Michigan with my family to learn about this stellar redesign as well as log several hundred miles behind the wheel as we “traversed” parts of Michigan.

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