About Driver Attention Assist

Unless you’ve disabled it, Driver Attention Assist is active when you turn your vehicle on. Your vehicle must be in forward motion and traveling above a certain speed.

Driver Attention Assist uses cameras to warn you when it detects that you may be tired or distracted. It looks for signs of high levels of fatigue, such as yawning, long blinks or repeated blinking. It is also designed to detect signs of distracted driving, such as long glances away from the road. 

Depending on how drowsy the system detects you are, you may get these alerts:

• Level 1: You’re aware you’re tired and need some effort to keep awake (e.g., by playing music, rolling down the windows, etc.).
  • You’ll see a yellow coffee cup icon in your cluster display and hear a chime (or feel a Safety Alert seat pulse).
• Level 2: You’re showing signs of severe exhaustion and are fighting to stay awake or drifting in and out of sleep.
  • You’ll see a red coffee cup icon in your cluster display and hear several chimes (or feel Safety Alert seat pulses).
  • You’ll see options asking you if you’d like to take a break, call a friend or navigate to a nearby point of interest (e.g., coffee shop, hotel, gas station, etc.). 

Attention Alert

When your vehicle is in forward motion, traveling above activation speed and Attention Alert is active, Driver Attention Assist looks for distracted driving by tracking your eye gaze location.

When the feature detects you’re distracted, you’ll receive a message in the cluster display that says “Distraction Detected Keep Eyes on Road” and will hear a chime or feel a Safety Alert Seat pulse (if equipped and selected in the Alert Type menu). 

This function is disabled when Super Cruise^® is active since Super Cruise has a dedicated attention alert strategy.  

If your hands are in the way of the camera or your eyes are otherwise obscured, neither Drowsiness Detection nor Attention Alert will work as designed. 

Both safety features can be customized through the vehicle Settings menu, under Driver Attention Assist.

Safety or driver assistance features are no substitute for the driver’s responsibility to operate the vehicle in a safe manner. The driver should remain attentive to traffic, surroundings and road conditions at all times. Visibility, weather and road conditions may affect feature performance. Read the vehicle Owner’s Manual for more important feature limitations and information.