Every Cadillac will be offered with a new suite of automated safety features as standard equipment for 2022. Some models will also get GM’s Super Cruise hands-free driving technology.
New Safety Tech for All
The biggest news for the Cadillac range is a sweeping, across-the-lineup update of safety systems. Every Cadillac model will come standard with the brand’s Smart System suite of driver supports. That means every Caddy, regardless of trim level, will now include:
- Automatic emergency braking
- Forward collision alert
- Front pedestrian braking
- Safety Alert Seat (which vibrates parts of the seat bottom to warn of dangers approaching on one side of the car)
- Rear park assist
- Rear vision camera
- Vehicle diagnostics
- Teen Driver (which allows parents to set parameters such as audio volume and other features when a teen is driving)
- Rear seat reminder (which alerts the driver that a child or pet may have been left in the rear seat)
Hands-Free Highway Driving for Some
The 2022 Cadillac CT4 and CT5 will also gain GM’s Super Cruise hands-free driving tech. Neither will have it when the first 2022 models roll into dealership lots, but GM plans to add it later during the model year.
Super Cruise is a semi-autonomous driving system that allows the driver to remove their hands from the wheel during extended periods of highway driving. It can automatically accelerate and brake to keep an appropriate distance from other cars in traffic and stay centered in its lane.
Super Cruise works on more than 200,000 miles of pre-mapped highways in the U.S. That mileage figure is growing as GM works to update the map.
Some versions of Super Cruise can also change lanes with a touch of the turn signal stalk, but the version coming to the CT4 and CT5 will not have that capability.
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