To date, GM customers have driven more than 34 million miles with Super Cruise engaged GM vehicles built on the VIP electrical architecture will be the first to receive the update later this year. GM announced that Super Cruise, the industry’s first true hands-free driver assistance technology, will soon be expanded so that it works on even more roads, giving customers greater accessibility to hands-free driving. By doubling the Super Cruise road network, hundreds of thousands of additional miles of roads in the U.S. and Canada can be explored hands-free. For new vehicles in the GM portfolio built on the VIP electrical architecture, the expansion will be available later this year and will be delivered at no additional charge, over-the-air starting in 2022 on Super Cruise-equipped models. Super Cruise currently works on mapped divided highways, known as interstates. This expansion will enable Super Cruise to work on many additional state and federal routes, a combination of undivided and divided highway roads. A few notable routes with large sections coming online with this expansion include: The Mother Road – U.S. Route 66 Pacific Coast Highway – CA Route 1 Overseas Highway – U.S. Route 1 Trans-Canada Highway When Super Cruise is engaged, the vehicle’s precision LiDAR map data, real-time cameras, radars and GPS keep the vehicle traveling along the lane path for a hands-free driving experience. These systems work together through “sensor fusion” to create a sensory field around the vehicle that assists in keeping it centered in the lane while elevating the driver’s comfort and convenience. Super Cruise accelerates or brakes the vehicle to maintain a selected following gap from a vehicle ahead, steers to maintain lane position, and on select models when offered, can perform both driver and system-initiated lane changes to pass slower traffic and to move from a lane that may be ending, while monitoring the driver’s head position and/or eyes in relation to the road to help ensure driver attention. Personally, hands free means little to me but apparently it is a big deal to a lot of others.
Will it dodge a big pothole if "keeping it centered in the lane" will result in hitting the pothole? Or how 'bout a dead animal in the lane? It's hard to program common sense into a computer.
You will probably receive a system warning, "tag you're it" half a second before your car smashes into the animal carcass.
