The 2023 GMC Yukon introduces several critical changes and updates over the preceding 2022 model year, arriving as the third model year for the latest fifth-generation nameplate. Among the updates is the announcement that the GMC Yukon will now be offered with the GM Super Cruise system. That said, GM Authority has learned that the 2023 GMC Yukon will not be available to order with Super Cruise at the start of regular production.
The GM Super Cruise system is normally optional for the 2023 GMC Yukon Denali via the Advanced Technology Package (RPO code CWN) and included as standard on the new-for-2023 Denali Ultimate trim level.
For those readers who may be unaware, the GM Super Cruise semi-autonomous driver assist system (RPO code UKL) was first available for the 2018 Cadillac CT6, but is now offered for the Cadillac CT5, Cadillac CT4, Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac Lyriq, Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra, and GMC Hummer EV, among others. When active, the system will take over the vehicle controls on a selection of highways around the U.S. and Canada, with 200,000 miles of North American roads available to activate the system.
The inclusion of the GM Super Cruise system is just one of the highlights of the latest 2023 GMC Yukon. The debut of the new 2023 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate trim level is another highlight, arriving as “the most premium Yukon ever offered” with a variety of technology, aesthetic enhancements, and comfort features.
As a reminder, the 2023 GMC Yukon will be offered with three engine options, including the naturally aspirated 5.3L V8 L84 gasoline engine, rated at 355 horsepower at 5,600 rpm and 383 pound-feet of torque at 4,100 rpm, the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine, rated at 420 horsepower at 5,600 rpm and 460 pound-feet of torque at 4,100 rpm, and the 3.0L I6 LM2 turbodiesel Duramax, rated at 277 horsepower at 3,750 rpm and 460 pound-feet of torque at 1,500 rpm.
Under the body panels, the 2023 GMC Yukon rides on the GM T1 platform, with production set to take place at the GM Arlington plant in Texas.
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Good! In my opinion this option is dangerous and will create more distracted driving and more accidents. Lawsuits will flourish.
You can probably be very confident that you will be sued if you are in a wreck and have this option engaged.
This option is asking for trouble… I am old enough to remember when “Cruise Control” was first introduced. (ya, way back then…) People ordered this feature on motorhomes. They would get up to highway speed, leave the driver’s seat and go in the back to make themselves lunch for what have you. Naturally, the motorhome would wind up in a ditch upside down with a very confused driver with mustard all over their face. There IS a reason that the driver is called the DRIVER!
I agree with all the comments posted. Too much technology is not going to make the world better. These features are going to create unsafe highways, and in time it will prove that after lives are lost that it was a bad idea. For those that believe these features are great, I hope you, your family or friends do not become a victim of someone else’s computer driven vehicle.
I’m amused by the negative comments here. Virtually every new technology is derided when it comes along. Portait photographs? What will happen to the artists who paint with brushes?
These tech advances aren’t the be-all/ end-all, but they do serve a number of valid use cases. My in laws are in their late 80’s. They’re OK to drive around town, but I wouldn’t want them to drive 3 hours on a highway to visit their granddaughter. Even going 2 towns away (30 minutes on US 101) is dicey. So it’s helpful for them. Frankly, I’d use it when I go visit my daughter (about 4 hours away) just to reduce the chance of an accident.
And for all those who say it’ll have accidents – – The number of failures per mile driven by autonomous vehicles is a currently 9.1/ million miles vs. 4.2/ million miles in human-piloted cars. However, the injury rate in self-driving vehicles is already a fraction of what it is in human-driven cars. The nature of autonomous accidents is simply much less severe. Plus, the systems continue to improve. The self-driving systems all share their data (so if you have a tesla and have to intervene at a particular intersection, the autopilot system tells all other teslas to adapt their driving at that intersection). Compare that to humans, who don’t really have the benefit of compounded learning in this regard. A recent McKinsey student concluded that having fully autonomous vehicles on the road would reduce fatalities by over 90%.
Also worth noting that the average 16 year old takes 40 hours of drivers’ ed before being permitted to drive *on their own* on a highway. I promise that there’s more than 40 hours of testing in the SuperCruise system and every comparable system in market. And the data (at least in California) is public, so we have the benefit of everyone being able to scrutinize this change.
Long winded, I know, but the upshot- these systems are here, they aren’t going away, and they benefit society. Of course they need to be improved, but they’re already safer (fewer injuries) than humans. You can still drive manually, though I can foresee a point the exact opposite of what Old School predicts above. As the safety continues to improve, I can foresee a pint where you’ll be asked “so, why were you driving yourself, instead of letting the far safer computer do it for you?”
My 2022 Yukon Denali was just shipped to me no daytime running lites the ambient sensor thinks it night during the day the sensor has a error code there is a lot of these SUVs having the same problem trying to get a sensor
I hate to say it but the improved driver technology will make driving safer, and once accidents are cut down we will have lighter and better performing vehicles because they would not have to be built so strongly to survive accidents. We might reach a stage where a person would not be allowed to drive themselves unless they had a special training and license.
The day a virus-free and defect-free computer is invented I might start trusting in technology but until then, remember… It’s not the drop that kills the base jumper but the rapid deceleration at the end. As a professional highway tractor driver (retired) with over a million miles driven without a computer controlling my every movement, nothing will ever replace the mind when driving a vehicle.
Airplanes take off and land every day, even in bad weather, with human pilot participation essentially optional.
If you think that airplanes take off and land without human participation, I have some fertile swampland in the Metaverse to sell you.
I love all the comments all deriding the tech as so dangerous. I’m willing to bet most if not all of these people have never used super cruise nor have any idea how it functions or what safeguards are in place to protect against the very things they’re complaining about.
I’m all for optional driver assistance packages. I own a CT6 with SC and very surprised how well the system works, and how well it monitors to make sure the driver stays aware.
And if the system fails, are you or your family going to be the first to sue the automaker… people today need to realize that these “chip” programs do not replace the driver. I watched a video the other day of a self-driving car with a person in the driver’s seat having a full-on sleep while the car was going 60 miles an hour on the highway.
Airplanes can land, take off without human intervention. Whatever technology we have now, that you see now, will be 100 times better in 20 years.
Many years ago an occasional North Korean pilot would defect, flying his Soviet built MIG to a US base where we would go over it, One comment was “A MIG pilot would fall asleep in our fighter jets”, there were so many things he didn’t have to do. That was in the 1950s. Technology is improving exponentially.
Go on youtube and enter… “self driving car on highway with driver fully asleep” then ask yourself, are you afraid yet???
Why are you guys even arguing one way or another. I am ready to order my Escalade and being told sorry no Super Cruise for you! Blame @#$_&-