Super Cruise in Stop & Go? More Like Super Stop! My 38,000 Mile Disheartening Journey

A while ago a senior Torque News reporter John Goreham published an article about testing the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV with Super Cruise and finding that it takes this already great EV crossover to another level.

Several days ago, one GM vehicle owner, who drove his car with Super Cruise for a long time, wrote this comment after 38,000 miles on Super Cruise.

Jason Kennedy writes:

I have driven more than 38,000 miles in the past year with many of those miles on Super Cruise. My experience may differ from the author's. My system doesn’t perform well in Stop and Go despite GM’s marketing. My system will decide that it’s outside the parameters and disengage when it’s at a standstill for a few seconds on a freeway. GM said it’s operating normally. The car will disengage many times during stop-and-go traffic within 2-3 miles. The car does work as designed up until the point at which it’s sitting behind a car (regardless of following distance I set it at) for a few seconds in our lovely Los Angeles traffic. At that point the system is constantly analyzing the situation and during that time stopped can no longer “understand” its surroundings, it loses track of the lane lines. This issue then disengages the system. There are many other issues with the system I have discovered during my time with the car. One other, non-supercruise issue is the single pedal driving doesn’t work downhill.

This is only my experience and if I had to it all over again- there’s no chance I’d buy a Bolt for the supercruise.

PS: The over the air updates could have fixed it, but GM won’t spend the resources to do so.

Jason, as Torque News editor I appreciate your detailed feedback on your Super Cruise experience. Covering 38,000 miles is fantastic, and your insights in stop-and-go situations are indeed valuable.

It's true that Super Cruise excels in its intended usage: highway driving with clear lane markings and minimal traffic congestion. However, the technology is still evolving, and its performance in stop-and-go environments remains a challenge. Your observations of disengagements at standstills and loss of lane tracking perfectly illustrate this.

Super Cruise is not like Tesla FSD, which just released the much-anticipated v12 version. 

Super Cruise is currently a driver-assistance technology, not a fully autonomous driving system. It requires the driver's full attention and readiness to take control at any moment. But I did want to share your comment here as it does present a valuable feedback on GM Super Cruise.

Armen Hareyan is the founder and the Editor in Chief of Torque News. He founded TorqueNews.com in 2010, which since then has been publishing expert news and analysis about the automotive industry. He can be reached at Torque News Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Youtube. He has more than a decade of expertise in the automotive industry with a special interest in Tesla and electric vehicles.