Super Cruise 101: All you need to know about GM’s hands-free driver assistance system
2025-02-28
General Motors believes driving should be smarter, more convenient, and accessible to everyone. As we advance hands-free driving, our vision is to make every journey more comfortable and less stressful.
GM introduced Super Cruise in 2017 as the world’s first truly hands-free driver assistance technology. Since then, we have continually improved Super Cruise to bring it to more drivers, more models, and more roads. Today, Super Cruise is available on more than 20 models from Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, and GMC, with more on the way.
By the end of 2025, Super Cruise will be available on about 750,000 miles of roads across the U.S. and Canada. And in a feature unmatched in the industry, you can even use Super Cruise while pulling a trailer on properly equipped vehicles.
How Super Cruise works
GM vehicles with available Super Cruise use real-time cameras, computers, sensors, GPS data, and precision maps to allow drivers to remove their hands from the wheel under specified conditions. Building on Adaptive Cruise Control, Super Cruise adjusts the vehicle’s speed to maintain a set following distance from the vehicle ahead.
Super Cruise requires an attentive driver on a compatible road. GM’s Driver Attention System helps make sure the driver is facing the road with their eyes open, ready to take control if needed. If the system detects an inattentive driver, a series of visual, haptic (if equipped), and audio alerts kick in. If the driver can’t take control for any reason, Super Cruise will slow the vehicle to a controlled stop in your lane of travel, turn on the hazard lights and calling OnStar to bring assistance to the driver.
On properly equipped Super Cruise vehicles, Super Cruise can automatically change lanes to pass a slower vehicle or get out of a lane that’s coming to an end. On other properly equipped vehicles, you can also signal a lane change, and the system will check blind spots before changing lanes.
Super Cruise provides a collaborative experience with the driver. If you want to scoot to one side of the lane – say, to avoid a pothole – you can simply steer where you want to go, then let Super Cruise automatically resume steering. Super Cruise will slow down or stop for traffic. When you want to take back control, simply turn off Super Cruise or lightly tap the brake pedal.
How to use Super Cruise
Activating Super Cruise is easy! You just need to be driving a Super Cruise-equipped vehicle on a Super Cruise-enabled road. Engage via a simple three-step process:
Turn on Adaptive Cruise Control using the button on your steering wheel. This is when you can take your feet off the pedals.
When Super Cruise detects you are on a compatible road, paying sufficient attention, and all other driving conditions are met (lane markings visible, GPS available, no system faults, etc.), the Super Cruise symbol will illuminate white on the instrument cluster.
When it is safe to do so, press the Super Cruise button on your steering wheel to engage hands-free driving. When the steering wheel lights up in green, Super Cruise is in control, and you can take your hands off the steering wheel. Do not remove your hands from the steering wheel unless the light bar is green, which indicates that Super Cruise is steering the vehicle. To disengage Super Cruise, press the Super Cruise button again or press the brake pedal.
If the steering wheel flashes blue, it means that you’re steering the vehicle. Move to the center of your lane and hold the steering wheel steady until the wheel turns green, indicating that Super Cruise has taken over.
If the steering wheel flashes red, you need to take over steering control. Super Cruise might not be able to see the road markings due to weather or construction, or you might not be looking at the road.
When you’re ready to disengage Super Cruise, you can turn the system off by pressing the Super Cruise button again, or by pressing the brake pedal.
Always improving
GM has continually refined, improved, and expanded Super Cruise’s capabilities and reach. For example, some Super Cruise-equipped vehicle have Google Maps built into the dashboard where you can see which parts of your route are Super Cruise-enabled, and how many minutes of your drive can be enjoyed hands-free.
For trailering customers, Super Cruise offers Hands-Free Trailering on select vehicles. When you hitch up, Super Cruise adjusts for the size, weight, and turning radius of your trailer, giving you hands-free comfort no matter what you’re pulling.
We’re continually expanding to more roads in more places. Every new road becomes available to eligible Super Cruise customers free of charge via over-the-air software updates.
Automatic Lane Change and Lane Change on Demand are not available while trailering. Always pay attention while driving and when using Super Cruise. Do not use a hand-held device. Requires active Super Cruise plan or trial. Terms apply. Visit cadillacsupercruise.com, chevysupercruise.com, https://www.buick.com/explo re/technology/super-cruise or gmc.com/connectivity-technology/super-cruise for compatible roads and full details.
Super Cruise is available on more than 20 GM models, allowing hands-free driving when conditions are right.
General Motors believes driving should be smarter, more convenient, and accessible to everyone. As we advance hands-free driving, our vision is to make every journey more comfortable and less stressful.
GM introduced Super Cruise in 2017 as the world’s first truly hands-free driver assistance technology. Since then, we have continually improved Super Cruise to bring it to more drivers, more models, and more roads. Today, Super Cruise is available on more than 20 models from Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, and GMC, with more on the way.
By the end of 2025, Super Cruise will be available on about 750,000 miles of roads across the U.S. and Canada. And in a feature unmatched in the industry, you can even use Super Cruise while pulling a trailer on properly equipped vehicles.
When the steering wheel light is green, you are Super Cruise engaged
How Super Cruise works
GM vehicles with available Super Cruise use real-time cameras, computers, sensors, GPS data, and precision maps to allow drivers to remove their hands from the wheel under specified conditions. Building on Adaptive Cruise Control, Super Cruise adjusts the vehicle’s speed to maintain a set following distance from the vehicle ahead.
Super Cruise requires an attentive driver on a compatible road. GM’s Driver Attention System helps make sure the driver is facing the road with their eyes open, ready to take control if needed. If the system detects an inattentive driver, a series of visual, haptic (if equipped), and audio alerts kick in. If the driver can’t take control for any reason, Super Cruise will slow the vehicle to a controlled stop in your lane of travel, turn on the hazard lights and calling OnStar to bring assistance to the driver.
On properly equipped Super Cruise vehicles, Super Cruise can automatically change lanes to pass a slower vehicle or get out of a lane that’s coming to an end. On other properly equipped vehicles, you can also signal a lane change, and the system will check blind spots before changing lanes.
Super Cruise provides a collaborative experience with the driver. If you want to scoot to one side of the lane – say, to avoid a pothole – you can simply steer where you want to go, then let Super Cruise automatically resume steering. Super Cruise will slow down or stop for traffic. When you want to take back control, simply turn off Super Cruise or lightly tap the brake pedal.
When the steering wheel light is red, you need to return your hands to the wheel.
How to use Super Cruise
Activating Super Cruise is easy! You just need to be driving a Super Cruise-equipped vehicle on a Super Cruise-enabled road. Engage via a simple three-step process:
Turn on Adaptive Cruise Control using the button on your steering wheel. This is when you can take your feet off the pedals.
When Super Cruise detects you are on a compatible road, paying sufficient attention, and all other driving conditions are met (lane markings visible, GPS available, no system faults, etc.), the Super Cruise symbol will illuminate white on the instrument cluster.
When it is safe to do so, press the Super Cruise button on your steering wheel to engage hands-free driving. When the steering wheel lights up in green, Super Cruise is in control, and you can take your hands off the steering wheel. Do not remove your hands from the steering wheel unless the light bar is green, which indicates that Super Cruise is steering the vehicle. To disengage Super Cruise, press the Super Cruise button again or press the brake pedal.
If the steering wheel flashes blue, it means that you’re steering the vehicle. Move to the center of your lane and hold the steering wheel steady until the wheel turns green, indicating that Super Cruise has taken over.
If the steering wheel flashes red, you need to take over steering control. Super Cruise might not be able to see the road markings due to weather or construction, or you might not be looking at the road.
When you’re ready to disengage Super Cruise, you can turn the system off by pressing the Super Cruise button again, or by pressing the brake pedal.
In 2024, GM held a caravan of 20 Super Cruise vehicles across the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland.
Always improving
GM has continually refined, improved, and expanded Super Cruise’s capabilities and reach. For example, some Super Cruise-equipped vehicle have Google Maps built into the dashboard where you can see which parts of your route are Super Cruise-enabled, and how many minutes of your drive can be enjoyed hands-free.
For trailering customers, Super Cruise offers Hands-Free Trailering on select vehicles. When you hitch up, Super Cruise adjusts for the size, weight, and turning radius of your trailer, giving you hands-free comfort no matter what you’re pulling.
We’re continually expanding to more roads in more places. Every new road becomes available to eligible Super Cruise customers free of charge via over-the-air software updates.
Automatic Lane Change and Lane Change on Demand are not available while trailering. Always pay attention while driving and when using Super Cruise. Do not use a hand-held device. Requires active Super Cruise plan or trial. Terms apply. Visit cadillacsupercruise.com, chevysupercruise.com, https://www.buick.com/explo re/technology/super-cruise or gmc.com/connectivity-technology/super-cruise for compatible roads and full details.
