General Motors (GM) plans to bring eyes-off highway driving to its full-size SUVs and light-duty pickups, expanding the technology beyond the Cadillac Escalade IQ, where it is still on track to debut in 2028.
In an announcement, GM said: “Today, we’re sharing the next big step in that journey: expanding autonomous highway driving to our highest-volume, best-selling vehicle lineups, including full-size SUVs and light-duty pickups.”
The automaker added that it “is moving from an initial limited debut to widespread availability across our most popular trucks and SUVs,” but fell short of giving a specific timeline.
The system builds on Super Cruise, GM’s hands-free driver assistance system, which the company says has logged “more than 1.2 billion hands-free miles across nearly 750,000 vehicles.” Unlike Super Cruise, eyes-off driving is meant to let drivers look away from the road on supported highways.
Super Cruise continues to grow as well. GM’s Q3 2026 earnings deck shows about 83,000 Super Cruise-equipped vehicles delivered in the quarter, and the company expects to pass 850,000 subscribers by year-end.
To power the expansion, GM says its new central compute unit has “roughly 40x more compute capability than today’s vehicles,” while a zonal Ethernet system “supports 36x more data than previous systems.” GM described the setup as “one backbone across gas and electric vehicles,” meaning gas-powered models are included, and it also uses a “newly developed ultra-high-resolution, ultra-low-cost radar.”
GM says hundreds of data collection vehicles gather “1 million miles per month,” and that “every day, our stack drives more than three billion virtual miles.”
GM is not alone in pursuing eyes-off driving, with Volvo and NVIDIA also announcing plans for the technology.
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