General Motors aims to deliver a message: We are a modern company that can compete with and best the less experienced newcomers. The tech shown and discussed impressed, but the devil is in the details, or, historically at GM, execution, as Director of Industry Analysis at AutoPacific Paul Waatti told The Drive .

In New York City, GM’s executive team, including CEO Mary Barra, President Mark Reuss, and Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson, laid out the automaker’s near- and long-term future. It’s all built around a new centralized electrical architecture that will underpin everything else: AI-accelerated product development, a ground-up reboot of OnStar as the center of the ownership and user experience, next-generation EVs , and eyes-off autonomy expanding throughout the lineup, including the automaker’s trucks . GM’s already implementing some of this internally.…