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Which 2024 GM Models Have Super Cruise?

In recent years, automakers have been developing driver assistance technologies that help drivers avoid trouble on the road. Many of these automated features are now standard—like automatic emergency braking and lane keep assist—but if you’re willing to pay extra, some automakers have systems that go even further. Consider GM’s Super Cruise, which allows you to drive hands-free on over 400,000 miles of compatible roads across North America.

Not every model at a GMC, Cadillac, Buick, or Chevy dealer can be had with Super Cruise, and it’s often an optional feature reserved for higher trim levels, but it’s available on more vehicles in 2024 than ever before, and we can expect it to spread even further in the future. So let’s take a look at what this feature actually is (and what it isn’t) and then look at which models and trims you can find it on for the 2024 model year.

What Is Super Cruise?

Adaptive cruise control takes the basics of traditional cruise control but autonomously keeps pace with the traffic in front of you as it slows down and speeds back up. Super Cruise takes this concept to the next level by taking control of the steering as well, allowing drivers to take their foot off the pedal and their hands off the wheel.

But don’t get confused: this system does not make a vehicle a self-driving car, and you should never take your eyes off the road. If things get too complicated, you have to be ready to take over driving at a moment’s notice. Even so, this feature can be a big comfort on long-haul drives where it’s easy for fatigue to set in after hours of driving on the open highway.

Super Cruise is a complex system that combines several different pieces of technology beyond just adaptive cruise control and lane centering. It makes use of real-time cameras, radar sensors, GPS data, and LiDAR to keep track of both the road in front of you and the drivers around you. It also keeps track of the driver and gives them a warning if it senses that they’re no longer paying attention. In addition to simply handling steering and braking on compatible roads, Super Cruise can also change lanes automatically to avoid slow drivers, and it can be used while trailering.

Chevrolet Models

Chevy may be on the humble side compared to the rest of GM’s brands, but that doesn’t mean it’s not getting its fair share of advanced tech features. Super Cruise is available on a number of models across the lineup, but you’ll have to pay attention to both the trim levels and the available packages if you want to make sure you get it.

Since part of the appeal of electric vehicles (EVs) is how futuristic they are, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that all three electric models being introduced for the 2024 model year are available with Super Cruise. The feature comes standard on the Launch Edition of the Equinox EV , an electrified version of Chevy’s popular compact SUV, but once the regular lineup is in place, it will become an additional feature available only on the high-end 3LT and 3RS trims. The midsize Blazer EV—also an electrified version of an existing SUV nameplate—offers available Super Cruise only on the sporty SS trim.

When it comes to trucks, you won’t find Super Cruise on the 2024 Colorado or Silverado HD. But the most popular truck in Chevy’s stable—the full-size, light-duty Silverado 1500—does offer the feature on its top-tier High Country trim. It doesn’t come standard, though, so be sure to add on the Premium II Package to unlock it, along with a power sunroof and power-retractable assist steps, among other features. Super Cruise is also available on the new-for-2024 Silverado EV.

Finally, three models in Chevy’s non-EV SUV lineup can be had with Super Cruise. The midsize Traverse is entering a new generation for the 2024 model year, making Super Cruise available on the LT and Z71 trims and standard fare on the athletic RS. On the other hand, the full-size Tahoe and Suburban only make this feature available on the pricey Premier and High Country trims, and then only if you add on the Advanced Technology Package, which also includes enhanced automatic emergency braking and reverse automatic braking for added peace of mind.

GMC models tend to have a more upscale look and feel than their Chevy counterparts but still prioritize power and performance in their trucks and SUVs. The GMC equivalent to the Silverado 1500, the Sierra 1500, offers Super Cruise as an available feature on the luxury Denali and Denali Ultimate trims, as long as you opt for the Denali Reserve Super Cruise Package. The same is true for the full-size Yukon SUV and its XL variant, except the package you’re looking for is called the Advanced Technology Package.

The other GMC offering that includes Super Cruise is the Hummer . Once a symbol of gas-guzzling, the Hummer has been reborn as a fully electric vehicle, available as either an SUV or a pickup truck. Whichever body style you opt for, you’ll get Super Cruise as a standard feature across all trim levels.

Buick Models

Climbing up the General Motors luxury ladder, we come to Buick. Up until the 2024 model year, Super Cruise wasn’t available on any Buick vehicles, but the 2024 Envision —an upscale compact SUV—will change that. This model is also getting a makeover inside and out, giving it both the modern technology and looks to match.

Cadillac Models

GM’s luxury brand Cadillac has Super Cruise available across a range of cars and SUVs, both gas-powered and all-electric. The Lyriq is an EV SUV that made its debut for the 2023 model year, and its 2024 model offers Super Cruise as an available option across all trims. New for the 2024 model year, the Celestiq EV is a sleek, futuristic-looking car that can also be had with Super Cruise.

Both the CT4 and CT5 sedans offer available Super Cruise on the Premium Luxury trim. This feature is also available on the CT4-V and CT5-V, performance-oriented versions of the cars that are more powerful and designed for thrilling driving dynamics. The midsize XT6 can be had with Super Cruise on both the Premium Luxury and Sport trims.

For the 2024 model year, the full-size Escalade is getting a big upgrade. On the 2023 Escalade, Super Cruise was merely an available feature on all trim levels except for the base Luxury. But for 2024, this feature will be standard on all of those trim levels, from the Premium Luxury up to the Sport Platinum, on both the Escalade and the longer Escalade ESV.

The Past, Present, and Future of Super Cruise

While Super Cruise is more available now than it was a few years ago, it’s still pretty rare to find it in a GM dealership—and it’s pretty easy to see why, as this feature is really a suite of several advanced features working together to perform a difficult task.

Whether this system will continue to improve incrementally across the lineup or whether it’s replaced with something new, like Ultra Cruise, for the moment, Super Cruise is an impressive piece of technology that can be put to use by drivers who understand it. We’ll be keeping an eye on future GM models to see if this feature’s availability continues to increase as the years go by.

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GM’s Super Cruise Hands-Free Driving Feature Blew My Mind Over 2,000 Miles

On a road trip deep into Canada with the loaded GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate, one big thing stands out.

By Steve Mazzucchi

As convenient as flying can be, some places are remote enough that driving makes more sense. Such is the case with Murdochville, Canada, a tiny town (2016 pop: 651) nearly 400 miles northeast of Quebec City.

That’s the decision three buddies and I made when we chose to check this locale — which serves as a base camp for some pretty killer backcountry skiing and splitboarding in the Chic-Choc Mountains — off the bucket list. As our destination was also 869 miles from my New York City apartment, this trip proved the perfect occasion to put GMC’s most tricked-out SUV, the Yukon Denali Ultimate , through its paces.

Now, a lot of things stand out about this nearly $100,000 rig , including the boss 18-speaker Bose sound system, massage-ready front seats, luxurious wood-and-leather-lined interior, running boards that automatically deploy whenever you open the doors and tons of space for four dudes and all their ski and snowboard gear . But as we took the YDU on a nearly 2,000-mile adventure, one futuristic feature truly dominated our chatter: GM’s hands-free driving tech, known as Super Cruise. Here’s why — complemented by some Canadian atmosphere showing off the vehicle, of course.

Super Cruise Is Super Smart

I remember trying out Tesla’s self-driving feature several years ago on a test drive. While I was impressed, it still felt like a novelty. I had similar feelings about Super Cruise until I began playing with it on the relatively short drive from NYC to my buddy Giuseppe’s place in New Paltz the day before we’d make the nearly 800-mile push from there to Murdochville.

I started with simple cruise control and adaptive braking, which is pretty handy for giving your foot a rest on the highway. Then, at the touch of a button, the light bar on the steering wheel illuminated blue and then green, and Super Cruise was happening .

The most striking thing is once you set a cruise control speed, you’ve empowered the vehicle to do what it can to maintain it, most notably by using its cameras and radar to detect road markings and other vehicles. Doing so, it can then not only stay in its lane but also engage the turn signal and automatically change lanes when the moment’s right. If you set the cruise control speed high enough, you’ll be zigging and zagging through traffic like a robotic Lewis Hamilton.

But You’ve Gotta Stay Engaged — and That’s a Good Thing

It’s kind of scary how quickly I came to trust Super Cruise and let it do its thing while I rocked out to the Allman Brothers at 75 miles an hour. On that very first drive, I was texting Giuseppe brief updates on my ETA, and the next morning, after rolling out at 5:30 a.m., I let it handle much of the highway action, even while I chowed down on some breakfast empanadas picked up at our first pit stop.

But that isn’t to say you can watch TikToks or snooze while driving. A small camera on the dashboard tracks your head and eye movement, and if it senses a lack of attention, Super Cruise deactivates: the seat vibrates, the green light bar blinks and then turns red and the display tells you to grab the wheel and take control. It’s not quite as dramatic as, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger overpowering a Johnny Cab , but if you don’t respond, the vehicle will literally slow to a stop.

Giuseppe handled half of the miles and learned firsthand that Super Cruise has little tolerance for smartphone-addled drivers. He told me that while I was napping in the back, he texted one too many times — the system completely shut down and made him wait several minutes to engage Super Cruise again.

Super Cruise’s “Butt Haptics” Are Quirky

Along with the light bar and the display behind the steering wheel that indicates such usual metrics as your speed, cruise control speed and lane changes, the most noticeable sign of Super Cruise is what I call “butt haptics.”

Basically, anytime the vehicle goes to make a lane change — or it senses you doing something inadvisable, like veering out of your lane or backing into a snowbank — the seat vibrates. It has a bit of a language, too: a buzz on the left cheek when it’s switching to the left lane and one on the right cheek when it’s headed that way.

It takes some getting used to and sometimes feels superfluous, but I did find some of the pulsing kind of helpful and safety-enhancing in its own weird way. Speaking of weird, here’s a funky thing you can do when Super Cruise is engaged — flick the turn signal stalk on the highway, and if the road is clear, the vehicle will change lanes without you doing another thing.

Super Cruise Doesn’t Always Work — and Some of Its Moves Are Disconcerting

Not long after we crossed the border into Canada, I got a notification I hadn’t before: “Super Cruise Unavailable.” We all began to theorize that maybe the whole damn thing doesn’t work in Canada for Byzantine legal reasons.

We were totally wrong. Later on, it worked just fine. Basically, as long as there are clearly visible lane markings, the system seems able to function. But if the road is covered in snow — or it’s a dirt road like the one we encountered on one of our splitboarding jaunts — you’re SOL.

That’s understandable, but I do want to note a couple of moments where the AI gave me pause. First, if you set the cruise control too fast, it can occasionally accelerate into turns in a way no human would. Second, when it comes to passing large vehicles like semi trucks, a human driver typically will give them a wide berth. Super Cruise passes them like it would any other vehicle, and unless you like the feeling of “buzzing the tower,” so to speak, it can feel a bit freaky.

Super Cruise Is a Major Conversation Piece… for Now

Even with these quirks, however, the title of this story is accurate: Super Cruise really did blow my mind, and of all the features people commented on during this very long road trip — we drove all the way back in one day — it was easily top of the list. When our buddies thanked Giuseppe and I for driving, we felt kind of sheepish, like an airline captain who uses autopilot for everything but takeoffs and landings.

One thing that really stands out is something the YDU didn’t do, which is leave me feeling totally exhausted upon arrival at our lodgings after some 14 hours on the road. That says a ton for both the comfy interior and certainly for Super Cruise. It’s pretty awesome to endure such a punishing drive and wake up the next morning refreshed and ready to tackle a mountain.

GM has done impressive work creating a system that safely and efficiently makes driving less taxing, essentially letting the driver monitor highway maneuvers and take over when necessary. That alone makes Super Cruise something to talk about — while wondering how long it will be till such functionality is so standard it is taken for granted. As someone who still appreciates manual shifting , I hope that day doesn’t come too soon.

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GM is preparing for another major expansion of its hands-free Super Cruise system

By 2025, the automaker says super cruise will be operational on approximately 750,000 miles of road in the us and canada, including more rural, back woods roads..

By Andrew J. Hawkins , transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State.

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General Motors may be struggling when it comes to fully autonomous driving , but the company is still feeling bullish about the future of hands-free driving. Today, it announced plans to expand its Super Cruise advanced driver-assist system, which allows drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel on certain roads, to cover nearly double the number of miles it did before.

Today, Super Cruise is operational on 400,000 miles of road in the US and Canada. The company plans on adding around 40,000 miles of new roads every quarter over the course of two years, so by the end of 2025, Super Cruise will cover approximately 750,000 miles in the US and Canada.

Launched in 2017 with the Cadillac CT6, Super Cruise uses information from cameras and radar sensors embedded in the car, GPS data, and lidar mapping data to allow for hands-free driving and, in some cases, automatic lane changes. It pairs this capability with a driver-monitoring system that uses an infrared camera to make sure the driver is keeping their eyes on the road at all times in case Super Cruise needs to hand back control to the driver.

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For years, Super Cruise was limited to divided highways that GM had laser mapped and approved for use. But starting with its model year 2023 vehicles, the company started adding nondivided state and federal highways, which are sometimes called routes — main roads that connect smaller cities and towns. That includes popular roads like US Route 66, the Pacific Coast Highway, the Overseas Highway, and the Trans-Canada Highway.

GM says it will continue to add more routes and nondivided highways over the next few years to expand Super Cruise’s operational domain. According to David Craig, chief of maps at GM, these will include “two lane highways that are designed to connect the little towns, the more rural areas, the back woods areas where people take their RVs and campers and go hiking and hunting and camping.”

“the more rural areas, the back woods areas”

For its mapping data, GM contracts with a Michigan-based company called Dynamic Map Platform, which operates a fleet of vehicles that scan “every mile of road” using lidar laser sensors, Craig said. Those maps are then fed back into GM’s central system, which pushes out quarterly software updates to ensure each vehicle is operating with the most updated version of the map.

Super Cruise’s capabilities will remain the same, and the system won’t be able to handle any new driving scenarios, like traffic lights and four-way stops, said Jeff Miller, product manager for Super Cruise.

The company recently stopped using its “Ultra Cruise” brand , which was intended to be its big Tesla competitor, deciding instead to merge the team that was working on it with its Super Cruise division. Ultra Cruise was intended to cover “95 percent of driving scenarios” on over 2 million miles of road.

To be sure, GM says it is approaching the concept of hands-free driving as safely and cautiously as it can. Miller contrasts this approach with Tesla’s Full Self-Driving, which still retains its status as a beta product despite being available to over 400,000 Tesla owners in North America.

“We’re not going to beta test on our customers,” he said, “like some other competitors do.”

Still, GM is chasing Tesla in some respects. The electric automaker’s Full Self-Driving program is operational on local roads and residential streets and purports to handle more complex situations like roundabouts, traffic lights, and four-way stops. How well it handles these scenarios is open to debate, as regulators and safety experts continue to evaluate and study the technology.

What is clear is that dozens of people have died while using Tesla Autopilot, and at least one person appears to have been killed in a crash while using Full Self-Driving. Miller says that is not the case with Super Cruise.

“Our customers have driven Super Cruise completely hands-free 160 million miles,” he said, “and there has not been one accident attributed to Super Cruise.”

Which is not to say there won’t be an accident someday, especially as Super Cruise expands its map and becomes available to more customers. “I mean, there could be,” Miller said. “We designed the system as robustly as possible.”

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GM expands Super Cruise tech for use on 400K miles of roadways

Customers driving General Motors Co.'s vehicles with the Super Cruise hands-free driving technology soon will have access to double the amount of miles where they can use the technology, GM said Wednesday.

The Detroit automaker is expanding Super Cruise availability from 200,000 miles to 400,000 miles of roadways in the U.S. and Canada, included undivided highways. The technology was previously only offered on mapped divided highways or interstates. A few known routes with large sections coming online in the expansion include: U.S. Route 66, California State Route 1,  U.S. Route 1 and the Trans-Canada Highway.

Super Cruise is available as an option on new vehicles built on the VIP electrical architecture.

The expansion will be available later this year on previously sold model year 2021 and 2022 vehicles with that architecture. It will be offered at no additional charge over-the-air on Super Cruise-equipped models, which have included the Cadillac CT4, CT5, Escalade, GMC Hummer EV and electric Cadillac Lyriq. It will also be available on some new 2023 model year vehicles.

GM still intends to have Super Cruise on 22 models sold in the U.S. and Canada by the end of 2023, but the chip shortage has affected its ability to offer Super Cruise on some of the equipped vehicles.

"We continue to work through the chip shortage," said Mario Maiorana, Super Cruise chief engineer. "We continue to balance the usage across our products ... the customer has the option of buying with or without Super Cruise but yes, there are challenges there that we continue to manage."

Pricing for the Super Cruise option varies by brand. For Cadillacs, the technology is priced at $2,500. It's available on: 2021-2023 Escalade, 2023 Escalade-V, select 2021-2023 CT4, CT4-V, CT5 and CT5-V, 2022-2023 XT6 and the 2023 Lyriq. 

Super Cruise is also offered on the 2022 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 High Country, 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV Premier and Redline trim levels only for $2,200. 

The self-driving technology is also offered on the the 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali and comes standard on the 2022 Sierra 1500 Denali Ultimate. The cost is included in content packages, GM said.

Super Cruise uses precision LiDAR map data, real-time cameras, radars and GPS for the hands-free driving experience. The system will accelerate and brake, it steers to maintain lane position, and on certain models, can perform lane changes. 

GM's expansion of the automated driving system comes as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has expanded a probe into Tesla Inc. for its Autopilot driver-assistance technology after several crashes. 

"We're always working with NHTSA. We talked to them about these types of expansions," Maiorana said. "We talked to them about our strategy with respect to driver attention, so we're having regular conversation with them. We'd like to have an open relationship there and discuss these types of significant changes."

GM's Super Cruise monitors drivers closely to make sure they can grab the wheel when necessary. The driver attention system is "very key" to safety, Maiorana said.

"We believe that is the linchpin of safety for our system in that we are ensuring the driver is always attentive and aware because there's situations that can be thrown at you at any point in time," he said. 

Sam Abuelsamid, principal analyst at Guidehouse Insights, sees Super Cruise as "the best system on the market today out of everything I've tried so far. It does a better job of keeping the vehicle steady in the center of the lane."

And the Super Cruise driver monitoring system is "more capable and robust." But he's not totally convinced that hands-free driving systems are a good idea because drivers can still get "complacent and not pay enough attention," he said.

"GM does a pretty good job of that with the driver monitoring system. But when you have to continue watching the road ... I'm not convinced that it's actually more relaxing."

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GM finally lets its EVs tap into Tesla’s supercharger network

GM has flipped the switch to allow its electric vehicles to charge at Tesla’s Supercharger stations, but customers will need to shell out $225 for a GM-approved Tesla adapter.

• September 19, 2024

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More than a year after first announcing the move , General Motors has flipped the switch: its electric vehicles can now juice up at Tesla’s Supercharger stations.

The catch? Owners will need to shell out $225 for a “GM-approved” Tesla adapter, available through the brand’s mobile apps, reports Car and Driver .

Future GM EVs will come with Tesla’s charging port standard out of the box, but early adopters get to be the beta testers (and beta payers).

GM is clearly stoked about the development, touting access to 17,800 Tesla Supercharger plugs as a major win for its customers.

Range anxiety, driven in part by the patchy charging landscape, remains a huge barrier to EV adoption. Tesla’s vast Supercharger network is widely regarded as one of the best in the game. In fact, it’s literally the best.

The move is part of a broader industry shift toward standardization. Following Ford’s lead last year, most major automakers have pledged to adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS), the SAE J3400 plug .

This will eventually allow non-Tesla vehicles to charge at Tesla stations seamlessly and adapter-free. GM plans to source its NACS-approved adapters from multiple suppliers to avoid relying solely on Tesla, which, as The Verge points out, has a record of facing production bottlenecks at its gigafactories

GM’s decision to charge (heh) customers for the adapter might raise some eyebrows

Ford and Rivian both offered their adapters for free, at least initially. But GM isn’t budging – no complimentary adapters here.

The company is also updating its apps to help users find and pay for Supercharger sessions, though Tesla notes that non-Tesla owners will pay a premium.

While Tesla got a head start on building out its network, competitors are playing catch-up.

GM is involved in several initiatives to expand charging infrastructure, including partnerships with EVgo and a consortium of automakers through the Ionna joint venture.

The bigger picture here is a move toward a more universal, less fragmented public charging network. It’s a win for consumers, even if GM’s adapter pricing stings a bit.

The good news is that GM isn’t the only one on the market with a NACS adapter. Over on the Bolt EV subreddit , users are discussing the A2Z Typhoon Pro Tesla Supercharger adapter , available for $168 with a discount code.

It’s not officially sanctioned by GM, but highlights that there may be more affordable options for EV owners willing to shop around.

What do you think? Is the $225 adapter a deal-breaker, or a small price to pay for the convenience of Tesla’s Supercharger network? Let us know in the comments!

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