GM Says Its Cars Will Drive Themselves by 2028

Autonomous Technology Still Matters

We've long been hearing how, at some point "in the near future," cars will be able to drive themselves completely. The idea has been tackled by many automotive brands, who are trying their best to perfect the tech and be the revolutionaries of this next major step in human mobility.

Over the years, we've seen a slow but gradual increase in well-developed features that could be considered autonomous. ADAS is a common feature now offered in almost all cars, keeping drivers, pedestrians, and other motorists safe.

GM's Going Big on Next-Gen Autonomous Features

One of the world's largest automotive groups, General Motors, is publicizing its efforts to research, develop, and test the next generation of autonomous driving technology. After years of careful planning and internal testing, GM's program is heading for its next developmental milestone, public road testing. This next part of the testing phase follows extensive data collection from manually driven tests across select routes and states.

Going onto public roads for testing obviously poses more risk to the program and to other people using the roads. GM has that covered; it published a safety report highlighting the protocols they use to ensure all public testing is safe. As announced, the public testing of automated driving tech will begin this week, but one of the safeguards in place is that each test car will have a driver ready to take over driving duties if needed.

According to GM, the data collection phase enabled them to enter the supervised automated testing phase, which had accumulated 1 million miles across 34 states. The supervised automated testing will be done primarily on limited-access roads and highways in California and Michigan.

GM's Eyes Off to Debut in 2028

Back in October of 2025, GM boldly announced that they are working on the "Eyes-Off" autonomous program. This GM claims will be a fully self-driving system, not heavily dependent on continuous human driver input. Even more impressive is that they say this tech will be available in the Cadillac Escalade IQ by 2028, with other models to follow.

At first, the feature will be debuted on highways only, and once deemed safe enough, will be able to do "driveway-to-driveway" journeys. This launch will be powered by GM's new centralized computing architecture, which consolidates vehicle intelligence from dozens of vehicle modules.

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