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Kyle Vogt has resigned as CEO of Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit, as questions build about the safety of self-driving cars. The California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the license for Cruise. 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. Problems at Cruise could slow the deployment of fully autonomous vehicles that carry passengers without human drivers on board. It said Craig Glidden also will serve as president and continue as chief administrative officer for Cruise, an appointment announced earlier.

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☆ Cruise testing continues in Japan, Dubai, even as vehicles parked in US
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

At issue is an Oct. 2 accident in which a Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian in San Francisco after striking her. As recently as October, it had hundreds of autos carrying passengers around San Francisco with no drivers and had announced aggressive expansion plans. In Dubai, Cruise vehicles have primarily been seen recently on a couple of islands on the outskirts of the main city. In Japan, Honda (7267.T) and Cruise have jointly been testing self-driving vehicles on public roads in the city of Utsunomiya - a regional hub of about 513,000 people - and the adjacent Haga town. Reporting by Greg Bensinger in San Francisco; Additional reporting by Daniel Leussink in Toyko and Rachna Uppal in Dubai Editing by Ben Klayman and Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company?s headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., September 26, 2018. In an email to staff seen by Reuters, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said the company will re-evaluate the employee equity program in light of the suspension, which "pushed out our commercialization and revenue generation timelines." The regulator said Cruise had not initially disclosed all video footage of an Oct. 2 accident where Cruise's car dragged a pedestrian in San Francisco. The unlisted Cruise unit last year introduced the equity program under which current and former employees can sell their vested equity to GM and other investors every quarter. Asked about the Thursday's email from Vogt, a Cruise spokesperson said, "GM and Cruise are working together on what competitive compensation packages at Cruise will look like going forward."

Persons: Heather Somerville, Kyle Vogt, Cruise, Sam Abuelsamid, Vogt, Hyunjoo Jin, Greg Bensinger, David Shepardson, Jonathan Oatis, Matthew Lewis, Daniel Wallis Organizations: General Motors Corp, REUTERS, General Motors, GM, Reuters, Cruise, California Department of Motor Vehicles, United Auto Workers, UAW, Thomson Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S, California, San Francisco, California , Arizona, Washington

"This orderly pause is a further step to rebuild public trust while we undergo a full safety review," Cruise said in a blog post. In addition, Cruise will hire an outside safety expert to review the company's safety operations and culture, according to the blog post. Cruise previously said it had retained law firm Quinn Emanuel to examine Cruise's response to the accident. The teams under Glidden include communications and finance, according to the blog post. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said last month it was investigating the safety of Cruise vehicles.

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☆ Cruise is taking all its vehicles off public roads amid expanded safety probe, staff changes
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"This orderly pause is a further step to rebuild public trust while we undergo a full safety review," Cruise wrote in a blog post. Last week, Cruise announced it would recall 950 robotaxis after a pedestrian collision. In October, the California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise's deployment and testing permits for its autonomous vehicles, effective immediately. "When there is an unreasonable risk to public safety, the DMV can immediately suspend or revoke permits," the California DMV said in a statement at the time. Last Thursday, Cruise announced a round of contractor layoffs.

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But right now, the unit's operations are shut down as regulators investigate the safety of Cruise's self-driving vehicles. Cruise had $1.7 billion in cash as of Sept. 30, enough to last nine months at the current cash burn rate. As Cruise's troubles intensified, investors on Thursday sent GM shares down more than 3% to $26.65, its lowest closing price since August 2020. In addition to the problems at Cruise, GM last month agreed to a costly new contract with the United Auto Workers, and scaled back plans to expand electric-vehicle production. California regulators suspended Cruise's license to operate, and have accused Cruise officials of misrepresenting information about the incident.

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☆ GM's Cruise slashes contractor roles after driverless car suspension
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Cruise announced a round of layoffs Thursday affecting contract workers who worked on its driverless ridehailing service, CNBC has learned. This week, Cruise announced it would recall 950 robotaxis after a pedestrian collision. In GM's third-quarter earnings update, the company said it had lost roughly $1.9 billion on Cruise through September of this year. The DMV suspension came a week after federal auto safety regulators announced they were investigating Cruise following pedestrian injuries. The probe, spearheaded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, was prompted by multiple reports involving pedestrian injuries and Cruise vehicles in recent months, and it concerns an estimated 594 self-driving Cruise vehicles, according to the filing.

Persons: Kyle Vogt, Cruise Organizations: Cruise Automation Inc, Southwest, CNBC, Cruise, General Motors, California Department of Motor Vehicles, California DMV, DMV, National, Traffic Safety Administration Locations: Austin , Texas, San Francisco, California

☆ Cruise recalls all of its self driving cars to fix their programming
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving vehicle subsidiary, has recalled all 950 of its autonomous vehicles for a software update. Late last month, Cruise paused all its public testing operations while it investigated the incident that led to the recall. GM had announced Monday that it was pausing production test versions of the Cruise Origin, a self driving vehicle GM and Cruise designed jointly with Honda. After striking the pedestrian, the Cruise AV attempted to pull off to side of the road to avoid causing an obstruction. Cruise doesn’t sell its self-driving vehicles so all the cars are owned by either Cruise or GM, which produces the heavily modified Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles.

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☆ GM's Cruise to recall 950 driverless cars after accident involving pedestrian
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A self-driving GM Bolt EV is seen during a media event where Cruise, GM's autonomous car unit, showed off its self-driving cars in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 28, 2017. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 8 (Reuters) - Cruise is recalling 950 driverless cars from the roads across the United States and may withdraw more following an accident involving one of its robotaxis, General Motors' (GM.N) self-driving unit and the U.S. auto regulator said on Wednesday. All affected driverless vehicles will also be repaired before returning to service, it said. "Today we have issued a voluntary recall of part of our AV software based on a new analysis of our AV's post-collision response on October 2nd," Cruise said. Late last month, Cruise said it would suspend all operations nationwide after the California Department of Motor Vehicles ordered the robotaxi operator to remove its driverless cars from state roads.

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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after it dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October. The company said in documents posted by U.S. safety regulators on Wednesday that with the updated software, Cruise vehicles will remain stationary in similar cases in the future. The Oct. 2 crash forced Cruise to suspend driverless operations nationwide after California regulators found that its cars posed a danger to public safety. In the crash, a human-driven vehicle hit a pedestrian, sending the person into the path of a Cruise autonomous vehicle. Cruise says in documents that it already has updated software in test vehicles that are being supervised by human safety drivers.

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☆ GM to update Cruise software so self-driving cars stop if a pedestrian is pinned underneath
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

California later revoked the license for Cruise vehicles to operate without human drivers behind the wheel. In the crash, another vehicle with a person behind the wheel struck a pedestrian, sending the person into the path of a Cruise autonomous vehicle. The pedestrian was pinned under one of the Cruise vehicle's tires and was critically injured. NHTSA opened an investigation Oct. 16 into four reports that Cruise vehicles may not exercise proper caution around pedestrians. GM recently paused production of the Cruise Origin, a fully autonomous vehicle designed for Cruise to carry multiple passengers.

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☆ Cruise reportedly knew its robotaxis struggled to detect children and large holes but kept operating anyway
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Cruise's driverless cars have reportedly had issues detecting children and large holes on roads. California revoked Cruise's robotaxi permits, and its service in the US has since been suspended. According to internal materials reviewed by The Intercept, Cruise knew about certain safety issues while its fleet of robotaxis was in operation. Cruise has maintained that its driverless vehicles are safe. We have the lowest risk tolerance for incidents with children and treat them with the highest safety priority," Cruise told Insider.

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☆ Cruise confirms robotaxis rely on human assistance every four to five miles
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

This Cruise in San Francisco seemingly could not figure out how to pull aside on a narrow street to let a buss pass. First, Vogt confirmed that the General Motors -owned company does have a remote assistance team, in response to a discussion under the header, "GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve 'autonomous' driving." The CEO wrote, "Cruise AVs are being remotely assisted (RA) 2-4% of the time on average, in complex urban environments. CNBC confirmed with Cruise spokesperson Tiffany Testo that the comments were accurate and came from the company's CEO. Cruise recently took the drastic move of grounding all of its driverless operations following a collision that injured a pedestrian in San Francisco on October 2.

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☆ Aurora opens first commercial route for driverless trucks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Tina Bellon/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 1 (Reuters) - Aurora Innovation (AUR.O) on Wednesday opened its first lane for driverless trucks connecting Dallas and Houston, supported by its commercial trucking terminal in Houston, ahead of a launch in 2024. "Bringing our commercial-ready terminals and services online a year ahead of our planned commercial driverless launch between Dallas and Houston enables us to focus next year on integrating our driver-ready trucks into our customers' operations," said Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson. Aurora said it would operate its terminals day and night, which will support more than 75 commercial loads for pilot customers. Aurora's portfolio of products includes Aurora Driver, its self-driving technology that can be employed across vehicle types, and driverless trucking subscription service Aurora Horizon. Aurora has partnerships with Uber Technologies (UBER.N), Toyota (7203.T), Volvo (VOLVb.ST), and PACCAR (PCAR.O), among others.

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☆ US probes GM's Cruise robocars over pedestrian close calls
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

NHTSA previously made public another Oct. 20 letter in which it raised concerns over several hard-braking incidents by Cruise vehicles that resulted in collisions. Safety officials cited two videos where Cruise vehicles came close to pedestrians in crosswalks and appeared to nearly strike them. Cruise had been operating an Uber-like service with unmanned vehicles, primarily in San Francisco, but the company halted that service this week. As of Friday, Waymo vehicles continued driverless passenger operations in San Francisco, its main hub. Reporting by Greg Bensinger in San Francisco Additional reporting by David Shepardson in Washington Editing by Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Cruise, the autonomous vehicle unit owned by General Motors, is suspending driverless operations nationwide days after regulators in California found that its driverless cars posed a danger to public safety. The choice to suspend its driverless services isn't related to any new on-road incidents, Cruise added. The pedestrian became pinned under a tire of the Cruise vehicle after it came to a stop. Three rear-end collisions that reportedly took place after Cruise AVs braked hard kicked off the investigation. “We welcome NHTSA’s questions related to our safety record and operations," Cruise spokesperson Hannah Lindow said in a statement sent to The Associated Press Friday.

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☆ US auto safety agency investigating two new GM Cruise crash reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco where it does most of its testing, in California, U.S., September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Heather Somerville/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety officials said on Thursday they are investigating two additional reports of General Motors (GM.N) Cruise self-driving cars engaging in inappropriately hard braking that resulted in collisions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in December it had opened a formal safety probe into the GM robotaxi unit Cruise after reports of three crashes in which Cruise vehicles were struck from behind by other vehicles after the autonomous vehicles braked quickly, resulting in two injuries. "Inappropriately hard braking results in the Cruise vehicles becoming unexpected roadway obstacles and may result in a collision with a Cruise vehicle," NHTSA said in its letter. The DMV in August had directed Cruise to remove half of its driverless vehicles after another crash.

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Cruise, the autonomous vehicle startup owned by General Motors, has paused all of its driverless operations after collisions led to investigations, a disagreement with state regulators, and a suspension of its licenses in California earlier this week. The autonomous vehicle maker, founded by CEO Kyle Vogt in 2013, had previously initiated driverless operations in San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas and Miami. According to DMV records obtained by CNBC, the Cruise autonomous vehicle came to a complete stop and "subsequently attempted to perform a pullover maneuver while the pedestrian was underneath the vehicle." The move comes two days after GM CEO Mary Barra said several times that the automaker believes Cruise vehicles are safer than human drivers. Cruise will keep running its autonomous vehicles with human safety drivers behind the wheel, supervising the drives, the company also said on Thursday.

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☆ Arizona says closely monitoring use of self-driving vehicles
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A self-driving GM Bolt EV is seen during a media event where Cruise, GM's autonomous car unit, showed off its self-driving cars in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 28, 2017. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 25 (Reuters) - Arizona is closely monitoring the testing and use of self-driving vehicles in the state, its transportation department said on Wednesday, a day after California barred General Motors' (GM.N) Cruise from operating its driverless cars. The Arizona Department of Transportation said it was aware of the announcement from California and was closely monitoring the situation. "Public safety is our highest priority, and we are in regular communication with and closely monitoring Cruise and other companies testing and operating self-driving vehicles in Arizona," it said in a statement. Companies such as Cruise, Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Waymo and Uber are testing their self-driving car technology in these states and cities.

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☆ Here's what reportedly led to Cruise robotaxis getting banned in San Francisco
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Officials have banned Cruise robotaxis in San Francisco, warning they are a risk to public safety. Cruise was banned from operating its robotaxi service in San Francisco on Tuesday, with regulators warning that the controversial autonomous car company's vehicles posed "an unreasonable risk to public safety" following a series of accidents. "I can confirm that Cruise showed the full video to the DMV on October 3rd, and played it multiple times," they said. Cruise has been a controversial presence in San Francisco ever since it received approval to run its robotaxi service 24/7 in the city in August. AdvertisementAdvertisementFollowing the suspension of its driverless permits, Cruise announced that it would pause its driverless car services in San Francisco entirely.

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☆ Cruise’s Driverless-Car Permits Suspended in California by DMV
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Ryan Felton | Meghan Bobrowsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Cruise has faced problems in one of its biggest markets, San Francisco, as its cars stalled and were involved in incidents. Photo: Poppy Lynch for The Wall Street JournalThe California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s autonomous-driving permit Tuesday, effectively halting its robot-taxi service in San Francisco. The DMV said that Cruise’s vehicles aren’t safe for public operation and the company has misrepresented information related to the safety of the technology of the vehicles. Cruise is majority-controlled by General Motors, which has invested deeply in the division and is looking to introduce a fully autonomous shuttle, called the Origin, that doesn’t have a steering wheel or manual controls.

Persons: Cruise, Poppy Lynch Organizations: The Wall Street, California Department of Motor Vehicles, DMV, General Motors Locations: San Francisco

☆ California suspends GM Cruise self-driving vehicles as 'not safe' for public
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Cruise's AVs posed an "an unreasonable risk to public safety," and "are not safe for the public's operation" California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) said in a statement. The suspension, which came after a series of accidents involving Cruise vehicles, is a major setback to GM's self-driving technology unit and to the nascent autonomous vehicle (AV) industry. That month, a Cruise robotaxi was involved in a crash with an emergency vehicle in San Francisco. Barra said the Cruise robotaxis have better safety records than human drivers. This month, U.S. auto safety regulators opened a probe into whether Cruise was taking sufficient precautions with its autonomous robotaxis to safeguard pedestrians.

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☆ California officials revoke Cruise's permits to test driverless vehicles
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked Cruise’s permits to test and operate fully driverless vehicles on California roads, the agency said in a statement Tuesday. About three weeks ago, a Cruise vehicle hit a pedestrian in downtown San Francisco who had first been hit by another vehicle then and was propelled by this collision into the path of the Cruise driverless car. This was the incident that ultimately precipitated the DMV to revoke the permits, according to an emailed statement from Cruise. Regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into the safety of Cruise autonomous vehicles around pedestrians. This summer, Cruise and Waymo, the driverless car arm of Google-parent Alphabet received permission from San Francisco regulators to begin regular paid driverless taxi services in that city.

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☆ California revokes Cruise's robo-taxi permit, calling them 'an unreasonable risk to public safety'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

California has revoked the license of Cruise, an autonomous robo-taxi service owned by General Motors. California regulators have revoked the license of a robotaxi service owned by General Motors after determining its driverless cars that recently began transporting passengers throughout San Francisco are a dangerous menace. In a statement, Cruise confirmed it has ceased its robotaxi operations in San Francisco. AdvertisementAdvertisementWhile Cruise has been sidelined in San Francisco, another robotaxi operated by Waymo is continuing to give rides throughout the city. Waymo, which began as as secret project within Google more than a decade ago, has been running another robotaxi service in Phoenix for the past three years.

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☆ California DMV suspends Cruise's self-driving car permits, effective immediately
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"When there is an unreasonable risk to public safety, the DMV can immediately suspend or revoke permits," the California DMV said in a statement. The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday suspended Cruise's deployment and testing permits for its autonomous vehicles, effective immediately. A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company's headquarters in San Francisco. "We learned today at 10:30 am PT of the California DMV's suspension of our driverless permits," Cruise spokesperson Hannah Lindow told CNBC in a statement. The probe, spearheaded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, was prompted by multiple reports involving pedestrian injuries and Cruise vehicles in recent months, and it concerns an estimated 594 self-driving Cruise vehicles, according to the filing.

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