Kyle Vogt, the CEO of General Motors' robot-taxi unit Cruise, has resigned from the company a day after apologizing to staff as the company undergoes a safety review of its U.S. fleet.
Kyle Vogt, CEO and Co-Founder of Cruise, resigns from Cruise::Kyle Vogt, the CEO of General Motors’ robot-taxi unit Cruise, has resigned from the company a day after apologizing to staff as the company undergoes a safety review of its U.S. fleet.
He withheld information from the NHSTA about an accident, and in the whole mess of that it was revealed that the robotaxis actually required human intervention every few miles, so they weren’t actually autonomous.
Edit: this part is speculation, but I imagine they told the NHSTA look at the thousands of miles we drove where our DRIVER didn’t intervene, withholding the fact that a person at HQ behind a screen is telling the car its safe to proceed every few miles because it doesn’t know.
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What’s going on? Second big important CEO given the boot in a few days
He withheld information from the NHSTA about an accident, and in the whole mess of that it was revealed that the robotaxis actually required human intervention every few miles, so they weren’t actually autonomous.
Edit: this part is speculation, but I imagine they told the NHSTA look at the thousands of miles we drove where our DRIVER didn’t intervene, withholding the fact that a person at HQ behind a screen is telling the car its safe to proceed every few miles because it doesn’t know.
Probably not a good sign