GM Cruise will cut one-quarter of its workforce
General Motors' self-driving vehicle business Cruise will slash 24% of its workforce, cutting about 900 of 3,800 full-time employees, the company said Thursday.
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General Motors' self-driving vehicle business Cruise will slash 24% of its workforce, cutting about 900 of 3,800 full-time employees, the company said Thursday.
General Motors' Cruise robotaxi unit dismissed nine key people amid an ongoing safety investigation, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday, which the company confirmed included Chief Operating Officer Gil West.
General Motors' Cruise unit could face fines and sanctions over its failure to disclose details of an Oct. 2 accident in which a robotaxi dragged a pedestrian 20 feet after the pedestrian had been struck by another vehicle, a California agency said.
General Motors is to scale back spending on its self-driving unit Cruise after a pedestrian accident last month, Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Embattled self-driving technology company Cruise has announced that it will be scaling back its operations to just one city once it restarts its operations. The company has also announced that it is delaying the production of the Origin robotaxi, according to Automotive News.
General Motors' robotaxi unit Cruise is planning to re-launch in one unspecified city before expanding to others, just weeks after California barred its self-driving vehicles from public roads following an accident last month.
General Motors' automated driving division Cruise has suffered another blow as one of its founders departs. Formerly one of the leaders in driving automation, Cruise has been in a slump since one of its vehicles hit and dragged away a pedestrian in San Francisco.