It's the closest thing we've felt to an angel taking the wheel, if you will.
What's most impressive about the array of technologies we just described is how well they work in concert. The Genesis G90's Adaptive Cruise Control can brake the car down to a complete stop, even from 70+ miles per hour, which makes it so much more than a convenience for drivers who frequently find themselves in uneven traffic patterns. It's a bona fide life saving apparatus.
The Genesis G90 has two modes of Lane Keep Assist, and we spent most of our time with 'Active' engaged. If you let it, this system will turn the wheel and keep you in your lane on a winding mountain pass, even at speeds exceeding 70+ miles per hour. It'll beep to remind you to place your hands back on the wheel and, you know, drive, but it can also be a function that saves lives.
Driving with the G90's Lane Keep Assist is nothing short of magical. The car continually monitors your placement in lane, and will subtly steer for you in order to keep you within the lines. What's wild is just how natural it feels. We fully anticipated this feature to feel robotic and jerky, but in reality, it operates just as a sane, sober human would - smooth, subtle, sensible.
Oh, and some more tech
The driving enhancements are just the tip of the iceberg on the Genesis G90, which is exactly what you'd expect in a luxury sedan that'll undoubtedly sticker at over $60k and will be used as a chauffeur vehicle for many. The full color heads-up display, multi-view camera, front/rear parking sensors, haptic steering wheel, high beam assist and active blind spot detection are all standard.
Not only does it feel amazing to plant oneself in a vehicle with that much life-saving tech onboard, but it's all so well done. The HUD is amongst the sharpest we've ever seen, and the barrage of camera angles you can toggle through when parking or reversing is borderline ridiculous (in a good way, of course).
On the inside, you'll be hard-pressed to miss the gargantuan 12.3-inch HD display in the middle, which is home to a navigation system that'll grab directions via voice search into Google's vast database of POIs. It's worth nothing that neither CarPlay nor Android Auto are included, but one could argue that this market segment will care a bit less about that. It's pure speculation, but something tells us the second generation of the Genesis G90 will include both.
The standout interior tech appointment is the 17-speaker Lexicon audio system. With 900 watts of power and the wizards of Harman engineering the placement and tuning, it's no surprise that listening to it is pure aural nirvana. There's no name in factory car audio worthy of more praise than Harman, and its Lexicon line is the crème de la crème. It helps that there's nary a rattle in the Genesis G90, and the cabin noise level is stunningly low. Still, you'd expect at least a little flexing when Toto's "I Will Remember" is blaring, but frankly, it just doesn't exist.
We geeked out on the 22-way power driver seat, and sarcastically bemoaned only having a 16-way seat to tinker with when riding shotgun. Both front and rear passengers have access to USB ports, and the lucky folks riding in the rear also get their own climate control zone. Yes, this car has three-zone climate control, because how else would you justify marketing this thing as a luxury automobile?
Driving and interior attributes
We'll just come right out and say it: driving the Genesis G90 is an absolute pleasure. The twin-turbo V6 had enough punch to (briefly) squeal a tire when bolting from a dead stop into a turn, but it's the overall ride quality that'll sell the car. Lofty and delicate when you want it, tight and agile if you pop it into Sport mode. Though the car is undeniably large compared to almost any other sedan on the market, it handles more nimbly than you'd expect. It's pretty easy to forget that you're essentially driving a small hotel room around behind you, most likely because the rear passengers have conked out in their bathrobes.
