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Former Tesla president Jon McNeill, who’s been a board member at GM for several years, was named vice chairman of the Cruise board alongside Barra. Other car companies have sought to put some distance between themselves and the startups working on self-driving cars. Most automakers have already dialed back their autonomous ambitions. Last year, Ford and Volkswagen pulled their funding from Argo AI, forcing the company to cease operations.
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However, it paused all of its driverless cars on 26 October after California regulators revoked its licence to transport passengers without a driver after an accident on 2 October. On Sept 30, just a few days before this incident, I happened to write, “A nightmare would be a car hitting and dragging somebody, oblivious. Sensors that see the sides and rear can help, some cars don't have those.
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They put a hold on employee stock redemptions, though these have been partially restored. The letter to the DMV from Cruise’s senior counsel which omitted the dragging was disclosed, and more. Vogt sent out an email Saturday saying that certain employees could sell a limited number of shares in a one-time opportunity. Vogt didn’t provide many details but said the company was developing a plan to conduct a new tender offer to provide restricted stock unit liquidity to mitigate potential tax implications. On Saturday, one day before resigning, Vogt reportedly apologized to staff in an email. In orders of suspension the California DMV issued to Cruise, the regulators accused the company of failing to give a transparent account of what happened during the pedestrian collision.
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt resigns from GM-owned robotaxi unit
The California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the license for Cruise. Kyle Vogt has resigned as CEO of Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit, as questions build about the safety of self-driving cars. Vogt's decision to step down, announced late Sunday, follows a recent recall of all 950 Cruise vehicles to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October. Kyle Vogt has resigned as CEO of Cruise, General Motors' autonomous vehicle unit, as questions build about the safety of self-driving cars. Cruise pulled all of its driverless cars off the road after its license to operate them was suspended in California.
He did not give a reason for the resignation, and said he plans "to spend time with my family and explore some new ideas." For quite some time, we’ll think “Cruise alleges...” in front of any statement from Cruise. They have earned that impression, and must earn their way out of it.
Cruise CEO resigns after self-driving fleet pulled - The Hill
Cruise CEO resigns after self-driving fleet pulled.
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Cruise had trouble appointing a permanent Chief Safety Officer—somebody with strong authority to enforce safety requirements in the company—and only did so after the incident. After stopping, the Cruise vehicle reportedly realized it had hit a pedestrian. However, it incorrectly concluded it had hit her on the side of the car, rather than having run her over with the front wheels. It followed programming to clear the road and so attempted to pull over by driving forward 20 feet and slightly to the right.
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Craig Glidden will serve as president and continue as chief administrative officer. Jon McNeill, who is a member of GM’s board of directors and Cruise's board, has been appointed vice chairman of Cruise's board, the spokesperson said. The troubled self-driving car unit didn’t announce a new CEO but said Mo Elshenawy, currently executive vice president of engineering, will serve as president and chief technology officer. A video, which TechCrunch viewed a day after the incident, showed the robotaxi braking aggressively and coming to a stop over the woman.
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Our legal systems usually ask in these situations, “Could this have been foreseen and prevented? The problem is that almost every incident will have a fairly obvious fix when examined after-the-fact. In fact, it’s one of the great things about robotaxis that unlike humans, none of the cars in the fleet (or competitor’s fleets) will make the same mistake again.
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Jon McNeill, a member of GM’s board, has been appointed vice chairman of the Cruise board. McNeill, who joined the Cruise board recently and was previously chief operating officer at Lyft and president of Tesla, will now serve alongside Cruise Board Chair Mary Barra. The California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise's deployment and testing permits for its autonomous vehicles after that incident. "When there is an unreasonable risk to public safety, the DMV can immediately suspend or revoke permits," the regulators said in a statement at the time. Mo Elshenawy, who previously served as executive vice president of engineering at Cruise, will now serve as president and chief technology officer for Cruise, the company said. The automaker’s driverless car subsidiary, Cruise, announced last night the resignation of Kyle Vogt as CEO.
Since then, the autonomous vehicles have drawn complaints for making unexpected, traffic-clogging stops that critics say threaten to inconvenience other travelers and imperil public safety. Cruise won approval to transport fare-paying passengers last year. San Francisco-based Cruise is seen as one of the most advanced autonomous driving companies in the world, and it had started charging passengers for journeys in some US cities.
Cruise, General Motors’ robotaxi subsidiary, has announced the resignation of its founder/CEO, Kyle Vogt. The move comes in the wake of a serious road incident which led the California DMV to order Cruise’s vehicles off the road and Cruise to voluntarily stop service in other U.S. locations. Morale at Cruise has been low since the October 2 incident, with employees pointing the finger at poor management that didn’t prioritize safety at the company. Without commercial permits to operate in San Francisco and an internal decision to pause its driverless fleets in other states, the company laid off contract workers, further deepening the malaise.
But now it seems like Cruise employees are at risk of losing their jobs as well. If there is an objective list of such things, and a company is failing at too many of them, it may be a sign they are not ready. I don’t have access to the internal details of all these incidents as would be needed to make a full judgement, but it could be it would say Cruise pushed too hard. With that guarantee, the companies must face the public’s difficulty in comparing human unsafety with machine unsafety. We’re picky and don’t want to be run over by robots, but accept being run over by drunks. GM paused production of Cruise’s custom vehicle, known as the Origin, which is key to their strategy.
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