Vogt, on the other hand, posted a message on social media on Sunday, though he declined to give a reason for his departure. Kan is yet to make any public comment about his decision to leave Cruise.
Soon after, General Motors announced that it was suspending driverless testing of Cruise cars nationwide, which meant removing its vehicles from the streets of Texas, Arizona, and Florida.Īnd in early November, Vogt told staff that the company was halting production of its fully driverless Origin vehicle, a futuristic-looking vehicle that it one day hopes to use for robotaxi services. The incident prompted California regulators to pull Cruise’s operating permit. It then dragged her along the road as it tried to pull over to the side of the street.
The most serious of these happened in San Francisco in October when a Cruise car came to a halt on top of a woman shortly after she’d been hit by a human-driven vehicle.
