A billion miles in less than a decade: GM’s Super Cruise reaches a milestone

十年不到行驶十亿英里：通用汽车 Super Cruise 达成里程碑

When Super Cruise debuted in the Cadillac CT6 in 2017, it showed there was a responsible way to give drivers a hands-free assistance system. Unlike Tesla, General Motors geofenced the system to only work on restricted-access highways that had been lidar-scanned and HD-mapped ahead of time. What’s more, it added a driver-facing infrared camera to track their gaze and ensure their eyes remain on the road ahead for the system to stay active.

2017 年，当 Super Cruise 在凯迪拉克 CT6 上首次亮相时，它向人们展示了一种负责任的驾驶辅助系统方案。与特斯拉不同，通用汽车通过地理围栏技术将该系统限制在预先经过激光雷达扫描和高清地图绘制的封闭式高速公路上使用。此外，它还增加了一个面向驾驶员的红外摄像头，用于追踪视线，确保驾驶员在系统激活期间始终注视前方道路。

After starting out in the Cadillac flagship sedan, GM began adding Super Cruise to more and more of its models, and the system has just passed a billion miles driven (1.6 billion km) across almost 750,000 vehicles in the US and Canada. “And we’re continuing to grow that, both with the new sales and also we have a very high renewal rate,” said Rashed Haq, vice president of autonomous vehicles at GM.

在凯迪拉克旗舰轿车上首发后，通用汽车开始将 Super Cruise 推广到越来越多的车型中。目前，该系统在美国和加拿大近 75 万辆汽车上的累计行驶里程刚刚突破了 10 亿英里（约 16 亿公里）。通用汽车自动驾驶汽车副总裁 Rashed Haq 表示：“我们正在通过新车销售和极高的续订率，持续扩大这一规模。”

That renewal rate is close to 40 percent for GM owners with Super Cruise, according to Haq, which is free for the first three years then is tied to an active OnStar subscription. “It really shows how Super Cruise is passing what I call the toothbrush test. The customers are using it continuously. Once they use it, they never go back. They continue to use it, and then they use it multiple times a day, just like a toothbrush. So it’s really past that kind of stickiness test,” Haq told me.

据 Haq 介绍，Super Cruise 的用户续订率接近 40%。该服务前三年免费，之后则需绑定有效的 OnStar 订阅。Haq 对我说道：“这确实表明 Super Cruise 通过了我所谓的‘牙刷测试’。客户在使用它之后就会产生依赖，一旦用过就再也回不去了。他们会持续使用，而且像刷牙一样每天多次使用。所以它确实通过了这种用户粘性测试。”

The mapped road network has grown quite a lot since the early days. When I first tested the system in a CT6 in 2018, it included more than 160,000 miles (258,000 km); now you can use Super Cruise on close to 700,000 miles (1.1 million km) of highways. According to GM’s statistics, it’s used an average of 17 miles (27 km) and for 24 minutes per trip, with more than half of Super Cruise-enabled drivers using it weekly or daily, the automaker says.

自早期以来，已绘制地图的道路网络增长了许多。2018 年我首次在 CT6 上测试该系统时，其覆盖范围超过 16 万英里（约 25.8 万公里）；而现在，Super Cruise 可在近 70 万英里（约 110 万公里）的高速公路上使用。通用汽车表示，根据统计，平均每次行程使用距离为 17 英里（约 27 公里），时长为 24 分钟，超过半数的 Super Cruise 用户每周或每天都会使用该功能。

Its usage is escalating, doubling year on year, with 7.1 million hours of active use and 485.9 million miles (782 million km) across 28.7 million trips in 2025. For comparison, Tesla’s FSD—which can be used on all roads, not just restricted-access divided lane highways—has ~1.3 million active subscriptions and, according to Tesla, surpassed 8.4 billion miles (13.5 billion km) earlier this year, racking up roughly half of that in 2025 alone.

其使用率正在逐年翻倍增长。2025 年，该系统累计活跃使用时长达 710 万小时，在 2870 万次行程中行驶了 4.859 亿英里（约 7.82 亿公里）。作为对比，特斯拉的 FSD 系统（可在所有道路而非仅限封闭式高速公路上使用）拥有约 130 万个活跃订阅。据特斯拉称，其累计行驶里程在今年早些时候已超过 84 亿英里（约 135 亿公里），其中约一半是在 2025 年一年内完成的。

Meanwhile, GM has been working on a more advanced version of Super Cruise for some time. Originally, this was going to be a system called Ultra Cruise and, like FSD, would work on surface streets as well as highways, making it suitable for virtually all driving scenarios. That system was set to debut in an electric Cadillac in 2023. Instead, the more advanced version will retain the Super Cruise branding, and the focus here is on adding eyes-off capability on the highway, transforming Super Cruise from a “level 2+” driver assist to a more partially automated “level 3” system, debuting in a couple of years in the Cadillac Escalade IQ.

与此同时，通用汽车一直在研发更先进的 Super Cruise 版本。最初，该系统被称为 Ultra Cruise，它将像 FSD 一样，不仅能在高速公路上使用，还能在地面道路上运行，从而适用于几乎所有的驾驶场景。该系统原定于 2023 年在凯迪拉克电动车型上首次亮相。现在，这个更先进的版本将保留 Super Cruise 的品牌名称，重点在于增加高速公路上的“脱眼”（eyes-off）功能，将 Super Cruise 从“L2+”级驾驶辅助升级为更高级的“L3”级部分自动驾驶系统，并计划在几年后随凯迪拉克 Escalade IQ 车型一同推出。

“Customers should be able to use it sometime in 2028. We’re on track for that. And I think you’ve seen that about a month and a half ago, we started driving supervised in multiple states, so it’s in active testing already,” Haq told Ars.

“客户应该能在 2028 年的某个时候用上它。我们正按计划推进。我想你也注意到了，大约一个半月前，我们已经在多个州开始了有监督的驾驶测试，所以它目前正处于积极测试阶段，”Haq 对 Ars 说道。