Overview
- GM’s next-generation system entered supervised highway testing in California and Michigan on Monday, with more than 200 development vehicles each staffed by a trained safety driver.
- The first consumer launch is planned for the Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028 with eyes-off use on highways, followed by a broader rollout and a goal of driveway-to-driveway capability.
- The platform uses lidar, radars, and cameras built into the body and a new central computer that GM says boosts AI performance by about 35 times and increases bandwidth roughly 1,000 times versus its prior setup.
- Training draws on more than one million test miles across 34 states, plus learning from Super Cruise’s roughly 800 million customer-driven miles and Cruise’s fully autonomous miles, with new road data feeding the AI model.
- The announcement helped lift GM shares about 5% Monday as Bank of America praised strong truck profits and a shift to subscription revenue, including a projected $7.5 billion OnStar backlog and plans to sell Super Cruise as a 2027 truck option.