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GM’s Super Cruise Tops 1 Billion Hands‑Free Miles

The scale points to sticky real-world use that GM is steering into a paid software business.

Overview

  • GM said Tuesday its Super Cruise driver-assist system has logged more than 1 billion hands-free miles across nearly 750,000 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada.
  • The system works only on pre-mapped, restricted-access highways and now covers close to 700,000 miles of roads, with a driver-facing camera ensuring eyes stay on the road.
  • Over the past year, customers took 28.7 million trips for 7.1 million hours of hands-free driving and added nearly half a billion Super Cruise miles.
  • Access is included for three years and then requires an active OnStar-linked subscription, with GM reporting renewal rates near 40% and projecting more than 850,000 users by year-end.
  • GM is beginning an over-the-air rollout of Google’s Gemini AI to about 4 million vehicles, and it plans an eyes-off highway system for the Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028 using lidar, radar, cameras and lessons from Cruise.