How to use Super Cruise

If equipped, Super Cruise®* is an available driver assistance technology that allows hands-free driving on compatible roads. While you’re using the feature, it helps prompt you to pay close attention to the road so you’re ready to take control.

1. Super Cruise allows for automatic and/or driver-initiated lane changes. Automatic and driver-initiated lane changes are only available in Super Cruise hands-free functionality. Here’s how to use them:

2. Automatic Lane Changes: System-initiated

a. You can use this under the following conditions:

i. To pass slower vehicles.

ii. Merging out of lanes that are ending.

iii. Provide space for vehicles merging on entrance ramp.

iv. Follow your route when you set a destination in Google Maps with Google built-in.

b. To cancel an automatic lane change, use the turn signal lever or steer manually.

3. Turn Signal Activated Lane Change: Driver-initiated

a. Ensure the adjacent lane is clear.

b. Activate the turn signal in the direction you wish to move.

c. The system will steer the vehicle to perform the lane change.

d. To cancel, return the turn signal lever to neutral or steer manually.

4. Settings:

a. Customize in the center display under “Super Cruise Lane Change” options.

5. Stay alert and pay attention to the surrounding environment before and during the lane change.

1. You can ask Super Cruise to change lanes for you by activating your turn signal.

2. Super Cruise will look for an opening in the desired lane and change lanes for you.

3. You can’t lane change onto a road that’s not Super Cruise-compatible.

4. Stay alert and pay attention to the surrounding environment before and during the lane change. Make sure the lane next to you is clear and conditions are safe.

5. This feature uses radar sensors placed around the vehicle, including on its rear bumper. If you have a bike rack or other object attached to the rear of your vehicle, you may not be able to use Turn Signal Activated Lane Change.

1. When you move your turn signal in the direction of the lane you want to change to, Super Cruise will start looking for an opening.

2. Even if you don’t fully pull the turn signal, it will start looking, so make sure you want to make a lane change and that it’s safe to do so before moving the turn signal.

3. Super Cruise is designed to give other drivers enough time to see your signal.

4. You’ll see messages in your driver display letting you know Super Cruise is looking for an opening, when it’s ready to change lanes and when the lane change is done.

5. Then, you can unlatch the turn signal if you pulled it all the way.

1. Super Cruise can make individual lane changes on its own under the right conditions.

2. If the vehicle ahead is moving slower than you, Super Cruise will make a lane change to the right or left to pass and then back to the left or right to get back into your original lane.

3. If it detects a vehicle merging out of a lane that’s ending, it can also make a lane change to give them room.

4. It can also change lanes if it detects the current lane is ending ahead.

5. If you map to your destination using Google built-in, Super Cruise can change lanes to follow your route along Super Cruise-compatible roads.

a. If your route takes you off a compatible road, Super Cruise will ask you to take control to change lanes.

6. You’ll see messages in your driver display with updates on the lane change.

7. You can enable or disable lane changes by going to Settings > Vehicle Personalization > Super Cruise Lane Change.

1. Stay alert and pay attention to the surrounding environment before and during the lane change. Make sure the lane next to you is clear and conditions are safe before using Turn Signal Activated Lane Change.

2. You can cancel a lane change by taking over steering.

a. If you pull the turn signal the other way, it will also cancel an Automatic Lane Change.

b. Pulling the turn signal can also cancel Turn Signal Activated Lane Change, but only early in the maneuver.

3. Super Cruise won’t change lanes if the Lane Change Alert with Side Blind Zone Alert system detects a vehicle in your blind spot. You’ll see the warning icons in your outside rearview mirrors when this happens.

4. If Super Cruise detects you aren’t paying attention and is asking you to take control, it won’t make a lane change for you.

5. If Super Cruise can’t detect lane lines any more or a vehicle enters the lane you’re merging into, it will ask you to retake control of the vehicle.

6. If Super Cruise doesn’t detect a lane opening after a certain amount of time, it will cancel the maneuver. You’ll see a driver display message confirming it.

7. You can customize or disable these features in your vehicle’s Settings menu.

1. On some vehicles equipped for trailering, Super Cruise can recognize you’re pulling a trailer and will adjust the way it controls the vehicle to account for the trailer.

2. You can’t use Super Cruise lane changing features when you’re trailering.

1. The steering wheel light bar helps you quickly understand when Super Cruise is automatically steering.

2. Only remove your hands from the wheel when the light bar is green. Super Cruise is not active when the light bar is off.

3. When Super Cruise is on, you’ll see a light on top of the steering wheel letting you know if the system is working or needs you to take over. The Super Cruise icon will light up the same color.

4. For more information, see this video on the Super Cruise steering wheel light bar.

*Certified by the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch®.

1. Super Cruise will tell you if it’s not available or has to turn off based on road conditions.

2. If Super Cruise ever turns off, press and hold the Super Cruise button right away to display a message in your driver display with the reason why.

3. You may see a message that just says “Super Cruise Unavailable.” This can happen when the system experiences an error or loses connection. The Super Cruise symbol will light up when it is available again, or re-engage if you have Adaptive Cruise Control on.

4. See your Owner’s Manual for a detailed list of the messages you might see in the driver display and what to do if you see them.