News

Cadillac Announces Ultra Cruise Advanced Self-Driving Technology

Cadillac has officially announced plans to introduce Ultra Cruise – an advanced driver assist technology that promises the capability of “door to door hands-free driving” in 95 percent of all driving scenarios. 

Ultra Cruise will be considered a Level 2 Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS), making it an expanded version of the luxury marque’s current semi-autonomous driver assist feature, Super Cruise.  Ultra Cruise will feature the ability to autonomously drive the vehicle on city streets, while also adding greater automated driving capabilities on the highway.

Ultra Cruise will also feature an all-new dynamic display that feeds relevant driver-assist experience information to vehicle occupants. The technology will offer permanent traffic control device recognition, internal navigation route following, vehicle speed maintenance, automatic and on-demand lane changing, close object avoidance, and residential driveway parking.

2021 Cadillac Escalade with Super Cruise

The upcoming Ultra Cruise technology was developed in-house by Cadillac’s parent company, General Motors. It will utilize an extensive array of visual cameras, radar and LiDAR features that provide a 360-degree field of perception around the vehicle. The upcoming driver assist technology makes uses of the luxury marque’s Vehicle Intelligence Platform (VIP), otherwise known as the Global B platform.

Global B / VIP serves as an advanced “nervous system” that allows for intra-vehicle communication of advanced sensors and their controls needed to make Ultra Cruise works. It also enables over-the-air updates and is also capable of delivering information to Cadillac’s back office data ecosystem for continuous system improvement. 

Cadillac plans to launch Ultra Cruise on select models in 2023. The advanced driver assist system will be compatible with more than two million roads in the U.S. and Canada at launch, with plans to expand to 3.4 million miles shortly thereafter. It will ultimately encompass all paved roads in North America. Though it wasn’t part of the announcement, we also expect Cadillac to make Ultra Cruise available in China.

2023 Cadillac Lyriq with Super Cruise

At CES 2022, Cadillac announced that one of the first vehicles to feature Ultra Cruise will be the Celestiq – the luxury marque’s upcoming flagship electric sedan. Recently, Cadillac Society spied a fourth-generation Escalade testing a Leica Pegasus: Two rig, indicating that the full-size SUV is being used as a test subject for Ultra Cruise technology.

Want to stay up to date on all things Cadillac? Then be sure to subscribe to Cadillac Society for more Cadillac Ultra Cruise news and around-the-clock Cadillac news coverage. We also invite you to join the latest discussions in our Cadillac forums.

Alexandra Purcell

Alexandra is a Colorado-based journalist with a passion for all things involving horsepower, be it automotive or equestrian.

Share
Published by

Recent Posts

Updated 2025 Cadillac XT6 Lands In China

We're not aware of any plans to bring the updated XT6 to North America.

14 hours ago

Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing Le Monstre Special Edition Compatible With New Precision Pack

Or, as we like to call it, the Precise Monster.

1 day ago

2026 Cadillac Vistiq Revealed With Three Rows, 615 Horses, 300 Mile Range

Slotting between the Lyriq and Escalade IQ.

2 days ago

Cadillac XT4 To Be Discontinued After 2025 Model Year

A surprising about-face for the luxury marque and its parent, GM.

3 days ago

Cadillac CTS-V Race Car Prototype Sells For $120K

Someone has taken home a piece of automotive racing history.

3 days ago

2025 Cadillac Escalade-V Gets Unique Steering Wheel Features

Two features that set the V's steering wheel apart.

1 week ago