Tech-Savvy and Ready to Work: Exploring the Tech in the 2025 GMC Sierra 1500

December 13th, 2024 by Kris Cook

The 2025 GMC Sierra 1500 is undeniably one of the most technologically advanced trucks in the full-size segment. GMC expertly blends this model’s history of reliability and capability with innovative technologies that set the stage for an exciting experience in the driver’s seat. These technologies fall into three major categories—connectivity, trailering, and driver assistance. Here’s a closer look at those areas and why the 2025 Sierra 1500 leads the segment as a tech-savvy road warrior.

Connectivity and Entertainment

The 2025 Sierra 1500 has an outstanding work ethic, with four engine options that cover a broad range of towing and payload capacities. Yet, there’s far more to the Sierra 1500 than its brute strength; GMC ensures you stay connected and entertained even when the work is challenging—and here’s how…

Digital Landscape: Over 40 Inches of Displays

The 2025 Sierra 1500 has the largest digital landscape in its class. As you climb behind the wheel, you’ll find over 40 inches of digital displays. These start with the 12.3-inch customizable Driver Information Center and the 15-inch head-up display, the former of which provides vital performance insights like speed, fuel level, mileage, tire pressure, and oil life. This information is streamlined in the head-up display, putting the Sierra 1500’s vitals, like speed and alerts, on the windshield ahead.

GMC frames the Sierra 1500’s modern cockpit with a 13.4-inch center touchscreen that’s home to the latest GMC infotainment system. This larger display is intuitive and easily accessible, whether you’re in the driver’s seat or riding as a co-pilot. It’s also a hub of connectivity and information, providing seamless smartphone integration, navigational tools, and more.

Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and Google Built-In

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are ubiquitous across the industry, leaving automakers like GMC anxious to offer more advanced features that will set trucks like the Sierra 1500 apart. Thus, the 2025 Sierra 1500 offers seamless smartphone integration via wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. It also features Google Built-In, which equips the truck with Google Assistant, Google Maps, and the Google Play Store.

An Immersive Listening Experience

What good is being able to stream your favorite playlist if the sound quality is terrible? GMC recognizes as much and guarantees an extraordinary listening experience throughout the Sierra 1500’s cabin. The full-size road warrior offers a 12-speaker Bose Premium Series sound system with CenterPoint surround. This setup provides an immersive, concert-like listening experience to every seat in the truck.

Trailering Technologies

Full-size trucks like the Sierra 1500 are engineered to tow heavy loads, which often means more work for the driver. Why? Towing a trailer has a steep learning curve, from perfectly aligning the hitch with the trailer to maneuvering the entire rig in reverse. Fortunately, GMC lessens the learning curve and equips the 2025 Sierra 1500 with advanced trailering technologies that instill confidence, such as…

14 Unique Camera Views

Situational awareness is crucial to your safety in the driver’s seat, with or without a trailer hitched. The 2025 Sierra 1500 heightens your awareness with an extensive camera system that provides up to 14 unique views, starting with the rear camera mirror that provides a real-time stream of behind the truck. The center touchscreen is also home to the Sierra 1500’s standard rearview camera—but what about the other views?

The multi-camera system provides a 360-degree look of the truck via Surround View. You can see ahead using the Front Camera View, switch to the Front or Rear Top-Down Views, or take advantage of multiple views using the Picture-in-Picture Side View. Trailering visibility is also extensive and includes a Transparent Trailer View, Hitch View, Bed View with Zoom and Hitch Guidance, Rear Side View with Trailer Biasing, Rear Trailer View with Trailer Angle Indicator, and Inside Trailer View.

ProGrade Trailering System

GMC’s ProGrade Trailering System complements the Sierra 1500’s extensive camera system. While these cameras improve your situational awareness, the ProGrade app provides vital trailering insights to optimize your safety when towing any sized load. For example, the in-vehicle trailering app is accessible via the Sierra 1500’s center touchscreen, and it allows you to create custom profiles for five different frequented trailers, categorized by name, type, and hitch.

Once created, you can access the custom trailer profiles in the Sierra 1500’s cab or via the myGMC mobile app. Either way, you can use tools like the Trailer Light Sequence, which lets you remotely activate the trailer lights without needing a spotter. The Trailer Tire Pressure Monitoring System alerts you to low tire pressure on the trailer, with the in-vehicle app also providing pre-departure checklists and maintenance reminders. The mobile version adds a Trailer Load Calculator, a quick reference glossary, and a telemetry tool that helps you monitor your trailer’s condition based on mileage.

Advanced Driver Assistance Features

GMC designs the 2025 Sierra 1500 to offer a transformative experience wherever the road takes you. Part of this experience is knowing your safety is a priority; the other part is having advanced driver assistance tools that mitigate your fatigue and let you enjoy the drive. These include…

Hands-Free Driving With Super Cruise

The 2025 Sierra 1500 features the industry’s first true hands-free driving tool, Super Cruise, which significantly improves your experience in the driver’s seat by letting you take your hands off the wheel. This tool uses a network of sensors, radars, and map data to determine the Sierra 1500’s location on a compatible roadway and where your eyes are focused. With thousands of miles of compatible roads across North America, Super Cruise reduces driver fatigue and can assist with automatic lane changing. It’s also the first hands-free system to work when trailering!

Peace of Mind With GMC Pro Safety

Knowing the Sierra 1500 prioritizes your safety goes a long way in instilling confidence behind the wheel. This full-size truck is built on a high-strength frame designed to mitigate the potential of severe injury in a collision. Yet, there’s far more to the Sierra 1500’s safety tech than its airbags and frame, as every 2025 model also has GMC Pro Safety.

The GMC Pro Safety suite equips the Sierra 1500 with active driver assistance tools that mitigate the potential for a collision. Automatic Emergency Braking works with the Following Distance Indicator, Forward Collision Alert, and Front Pedestrian Braking to monitor the speed of traffic and the presence of bystanders. The system will alert you to a potential collision and can apply the brakes if you fail to respond.

Beyond these front-facing tools, the GMC Pro Safety suite also includes Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning and IntelliBeam automatic high beams that brighten and dim based on oncoming traffic. Depending on your chosen trim and packages, the Sierra 1500 offers additional driver assistance technologies like Adaptive Cruise Control, Front and Rear Park Assist, Rear Cross Traffic Braking, Rear Cross Traffic Alert, Side Blind Zone Alert, and Blind Zone Steering Assist.