Supercruise is worth it in 2025?

[Yukon Toad]

I have it on my '25. It wasn't a make or break option when I purchased, but I've become a supporter. On a one day, 730 mile trip it made a huge difference ... I was a lot less tired at the end of the day. It drops out when you approach signals or where there are any junctions with cross traffic. On that 730 mile trip from NC to FL it was probably engaged for 710 miles. Yes, you need maintain your situational awareness, plus it will alert you if it thinks you're distracted ... even spending too long looking at the navigation display gets you the alert. You need find a stretch of road which isn't too busy to put it through its paces ... genestoy said you initiate passing by selecting the turn indicator, which you can do, but in most cases it will make the overtake maneuver itself. You get a vibrate on the LH side of the seat to alert you, it then turns on the indicator signal and proceeds to change lanes. Once you are past the slower vehicle it does a RH side of the seat vibrate, puts on the turn indicator and returns to the original lane. I've found on a 3 lane interstate it settles down to use the center and LH lane, but you can manually get it to return to the RH lane. You need remain alert, once it nearly caught me out by trying to return to the original lane when a vehicle was entering from an on-ramp.

 

[bhullIT]

In my experience, owning a 2033 Denali equipped with Super Cruise has been an immensely rewarding experience. Initially, I encountered some apprehension, but with time and practice, I have developed a deep appreciation for its capabilities. Super Cruise demands respect, as it operates flawlessly and consistently exceeds my expectations. While it took me some time to fully trust its functionality, I now effortlessly navigate its usage, even on the interstate highway in Atlanta. The automatic lane change feature is an additional significant advantage. In my opinion, if all vehicles on the roadways were equipped with autonomous driving capabilities, road rage would significantly diminish, and accidents would occur at a substantially reduced rate.


Therefore, I strongly recommend investing in this technology. As time progresses, vehicles will increasingly require less human intervention in their operation.

"it operates flawlessly" - I believe this is the biggest difference when compared with Tesla "FSD" which sacrifices SAFETY for broad capability. Those who claim Tesla is "better" ignore this critical point.

 

[YukonDownpour25]

Apparently, 2026 is bringing hands-on lane centering to Super Cruise on unmapped roads. Already available on the new Cadillacs.

 

[KMeloney]

I don't use SC all of the time or even most of the time, but when/where I do it's great.

 

[Eighthtry]

I have a 23 Yukon Denali XL. My experience has not been as good as others. The moral of my story is it is just not ready for prime time yet. Moderatively heavy traffic hurts its performance. I tried it coming back up from the Valley to Dallas. Lane centering is not good. It gets uncomfortably close to traffic in the next lane, PARTICULARLY semi's. It seems to do well in light traffic anticipating the slower car up front. It will turn on the signal, ease over, get a comfortable lead ahead, then signal and move back over. I was running 80+mph at the time. Pretty slick.

One problem. I was in the left hand lane going around a tight right hand curve on the interstate at the posted speed limit. SuperCruise promptly confused itself and lost track. Had I not been anticipating that might happen I would have lost it across the median into oncoming traffic.

Second problem. I was in the middle of the normal passing of a shoebox on the interstate. Right about the time the car I was passing's rear bumper was almost even with my front bumper, it started drifting into my lane. My Yukon kept going straight. It was not even seeing that car even though it was passing it. I let the car drift over into my lane as I steered over to the left shoulder. She saw me when I was about to the middle of her rear door and jerked it back.

The Yukon never missed a beat. I turned it loose and it drifted back over into the left lane and kept right on passing. The point here is it lost track of that car drifting over into my lane. It never made an adjustment. Scared the hell out of the gal texting in the shoebox and my wife riding in the passenger seat. We were not in any danger because again, I was paying attention.

The latest issue of Motor Trend has SuperCruise as the top ranked self driving system. I hate to know what the rest of them can('t) do. I think GM is about to put it back to work in taxi operation in Austin, Texas.

One other thing I have learned in cars with cameras is I must keep my cameras clean at all times. Well, duh, that at least makes sense. Cameras were clean in the above illustrations.

 

[KMeloney]

I have a 23 Yukon Denali XL. My experience has not been as good as others. The moral of my story is it is just not ready for prime time yet.

What would you have it do that it doesn't currently that would make it ready for "prime time"? I think it's really good already -- but I also only use it when and where I'm comfortable with it.

Did you have the SuperCruise TSB (from last year, I think) done? I thought I had, but understand now that I haven't. I wonder if it improves the lane-centering.

 

[morededu]

Does anyone know which 2026 Tahoe models will have Supercruise? Will it still just be LT, RST, Premier and High Country? Or will they add option to include it on Z71 and LS?

 

[tjs3922]

Life without Supercruise is not a life. Exaggerating, sort of.

We have a 25 Traverse with it and it is greatly improved over my 23 Yukon Denali.

 

[genestoy]

Here is my take...I just drove from Phoenix to Leadville, CO via Payson, Mogollon Rim, Gallup, Cortez, Pagosa Springs over Wolf Creek Pass and used the Super Cruise about 75% of the drive. It worked on all the two lane roads with no issues, not once was it never available. I will always have Super Cruise in the Future!

 

[headwest]

I've driven all those roads over the years in older vehicles. I'm getting ready to order a '25 Yukon Denali with SC and have only watched some video. Please explain - as you are driving those roads and probably not doing a whole lot of passing is the experience just that you can keep your hands down and vehicle is centered and maintaining set speed and distance as long as you're paying attention? What about the speed change in the curves and did you pass any cars with the SC on? Thnks

 

[morededu]

Super cruise works similar to advanced cruise control - you set a speed and it will go up to the speed while keeping safe distance from car in front and staying centered in the lane. It will also take curves appropriately and change lanes if the car in front of you is going below your set speed (on mapped roads). What it doesn’t do is keep track of every car / obstacle around you (it just tracks car directly in front and if you have space to change lanes left and right) or have a whole lot of intelligence about where you’re going. It also often unavailable when driving through construction zones, even short ones. So very much a driver assistance function rather than autonomous driving. It makes stop and go highway traffic on my commute 10x easier and I’m really looking forward to a longer drive with it.

 

[olyelr]

What would you have it do that it doesn't currently that would make it ready for "prime time"? I think it's really good already -- but I also only use it when and where I'm comfortable with it.

Did you have the SuperCruise TSB (from last year, I think) done? I thought I had, but understand now that I haven't. I wonder if it improves the lane-centering.

He directly spelled out two instances where it did exactly what he thought it shouldnt have done. Which seems legit to me, if thats the case.

Sounds like its a great system overall for day to day freeway driving, although far from self driving or driving without being aware of your surroundings.

 

[Stbentoak]

You really need to experience it to understand the full value of it. I was certainly skeptical also, but now after having had it I can see where it is an indispensable feature if you make reasonably long road trips. So far of the time I've used it, it has performed well and never made me feel unsafe.

 

[KMeloney]

I've driven all those roads over the years in older vehicles. I'm getting ready to order a '25 Yukon Denali with SC and have only watched some video. Please explain - as you are driving those roads and probably not doing a whole lot of passing is the experience just that you can keep your hands down and vehicle is centered and maintaining set speed and distance as long as you're paying attention? What about the speed change in the curves and did you pass any cars with the SC on? Thnks

You've got it right. Lane-changes can be set to be done automatically (when you get behind a slow car and the lane next to you is clear) or not. Going by a slower car in the lane next to you is done seamlessly.

SC wants to maintain its set speed, so it'll break and accelerate going down and up grades. As for corners, if you know a sharper one is coming up and you've got your speed set to something high, I usually manually toggle down the speed before the corner so that I'm comfortable with it.

 

[tooleyondeck]

Random ad in 10 years: "Did you or a loved one get seriously injured in a semi-autonomous vehicle accident? If so, you may be entitled to compensation."

 

[KMeloney]

He directly spelled out two instances where it did exactly what he thought it shouldnt have done. Which seems legit to me, if thats the case.

Sounds like its a great system overall for day to day freeway driving, although far from self driving or driving without being aware of your surroundings.

Yeah, I read what he wrote, thanks. I didn't ask him what problems he's had with it -- I asked him why he thinks it's not ready for prime time. The system is not perfect -- but it's very adequate for what it purports to do. Saying that it's not ready for implementation at all (I'm assuming that's what "prime time" is) is going way too far, I think.

I agree that it's far from self-driving and/or driving without being aware -- but it doesn't claim to be a self-driving system; and you HAVE to stay aware as the main criteria for its operation.

 

[genestoy]

I was towing so did not pass any other cars, as far as curves using SuperCruise I was cruising mostly at 62 mph and if I came upon a curve with a sign that said 50 I just used the cruise button/lever and quickly lowered the speed to 52 mph and the cruise braking quickly slowed the Yukon down, then went thru the curve and again using the cruise button/lever set it back to 62 mph, got used to doing that pretty quickly and it worked great. I could get a drink quickly and stretch my arms and quickly glance at the scenery, I say quickly because the steering wheel camera notices you taking your eyes off the road pretty quickly. You can always take control of the steering wheel like if there was an object on the road, then drive around it and the SuperCruise will regain control automatically when you are back in the lane.

 

[headwest]

Motor Trend thinks it's the best one out there at least among the big 3. It is a level 2 and Mercedes working on or has a level 3. I'm ordering a 2026 and plan to get it along with Air Ride. Still making up my mind in the latter.