GM’s Super Cruise Is Now In Over Half A Million Cars

• General Motors doubled the number of cars with its Super Cruise in a year.
• At the end of the second quarter, there were over 500,000 vehicles on the road with Super Cruise capability.
• Super Cruise enables hands-free highway driving assistance. It’s on everything from the affordable Chevrolet Equinox EV to the luxe Cadillac Escalade IQ.

General Motors’ Super Cruise hands-free driving assistance system made a huge leap forward in the last 12 months. At the end of June, the automaker had put over 500,000 vehicles with Super Cruise on the road, an increase of over 100% compared to the same period last year.

But that’s just part of the story. Despite GM shipping more cars with Super Cruise every month, not all drivers put the feature to good use. According to the American auto giant, it had over 200,000 monthly active users in the second quarter, which amounts to roughly 60% of the total.

The latest update to Super Cruise increased the number of compatible highway miles to over 750,000.

Super Cruise is considered a Level 2 driving assistance system on the SAE’s Levels of Driving Automation chart. It uses previously recorded lidar map data in conjunction with GPS, cameras and sensors to enable hands-free driving, including automatic lane changes, on over 750,000 miles of compatible roads in the United States and Canada. Compatible roads include major highways and smaller roads that typically connect smaller cities and townships.

Since its introduction in 2017, when Super Cruise was only available on the gas-powered Cadillac CT6, GM has nearly quadrupled the number of compatible highway miles, going from 200,000 miles to almost 800,000 today. Moreover, GM claims people have driven over 34 million miles with the feature enabled.

Now, Super Cruise is offered as a three-year trial on most of GM’s lineup, starting from the affordable Chevrolet Equinox EV and all the way to the luxurious Cadillac Escalade IQ. After the trial ends, owners can pay a $25 monthly subscription or $250 per year. On a handful of models, customers can pay a one-time $2,500-3,000 fee to get the feature.

For 2026 models, GM said it will integrate the system with Google Maps. But the bigger news here is that compatible vehicles will be able to transition automatically from the Hands-On Steering Assist mode to hands-free driving once they get on a stretch of compatible road.

That’s something extra compared to competitors like Tesla’s Autopilot and Ford’s BlueCruise, which—just like the previous iteration of Super Cruise—have to be enabled manually.