3 posts tagged ‘General Motors’
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt Resigns After Vehicles Deemed Public Safety Hazard
Gizmodo,
The co-founder of Cruise, Kyle Vogt, resigned from his duties as CEO, CTO, and President on Sunday night, following a month of turbulence for General Motors’ self-driving car subsidiary. Vogt exits the startup he launched in his garage 10 years ago, just weeks after Cruise recalled 950 robotaxis after one of them dragg… Read more...
No one has any idea how often Cruise driverless vehicles have hit pedestrians
Boing Boing,
The notoriety of General Motors' Cruise programming failures became more widespread after an incident in October. In this incident, a pedestrian was hit by a driver, thrown into another lane, and then hit a second time by the self-driving vehicle. The vehicle dragged her twenty feet and eventually came to a stop on top of her. — Read the rest
GM inserts exec at Cruise as safety review expands, manual self driving paused
TechCrunch,
General Motors is taking a more active role in shaping the safety culture at Cruise, following a string of incidents that prompted California regulators to suspend permits that allowed the self-driving car subsidiary to operate commercially in the state. The legacy automaker is inserting one of its own executives, who is also a Cruise board […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.