Home General Motors News GM’s Next-Gen Super Cruise Is Training On ‘100 Years Of Human Driving’ Every Day The company wants to launch “eyes-off” highway autonomy in 2028. Here’s how it plans to get there, according to CEO Mary Barra. Photo by: Cadillac Suvrat Kothari By : Suvrat Kothari Apr 28, at 12:30pm ET Facebook X LinkedIn Flipboard Reddit WhatsApp E-Mail copy Share Comment GM wants to deploy a new generation of Super Cruise with eyes-off, hands-off capability. It will debut on a lidar-equipped Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028. The automaker also plans to extend this capability to its combustion engine vehicles. General Motors recorded $1.1 billion in charges linked to the rollback of its electric vehicle ambitions in the first quarter of this year, the automaker said in its Q1 2026 earnings call on Tuesday. Against that backdrop, its Super Cruise advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) continued to be a bright spot, paving the path for higher levels of autonomy on both future GM EVs and combustion engine cars, company officials said. GM customers have now driven more than a billion miles using Super Cruise , with subscriptions increasing 70% year-over-year. This vast data set comprising real-world driving miles will help GM roll out its Level 3 hands-off, eyes-off system on the Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028, which will also get a LIDAR sensor. “We’re stress testing it in a digital environment capable of simulating roughly 100 years of human driving every single day,” CEO Mary Barra said during the company earnings call on Tuesday. GM also recently started testing the system out on actual roads in California and Michigan. Lidar-equipped Cadillac Escalade IQ at the GM Forward event last year. Photo by: Patrick George Automakers are treating autonomy as the next battleground alongside electrification. It may offer them something that their EV businesses still are struggling with: recurring, high-margin revenue. For GM, Super Cruise sits right at the center of that st
