{"id":1204868,"date":"2023-11-20T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204868"},"modified":"2023-11-20T16:47:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:47:47","slug":"cruise-co-founder-resigns-following-ceo-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204868","title":{"rendered":"Cruise co-founder resigns following CEO exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cruise, the self-driving car company owned by General Motors, confirmed to Reuters<\/ins><\/em><\/a> that its co-founder and chief product officer Daniel Kan has resigned. Kan\u2019s departure comes just a day after the company\u2019s CEO Kyle Vogt announced his resignation<\/ins><\/a> on X after a 10-year tenure. Kan is said to have announced his resignation over Slack, however, the reasoning for his departure has not been made clear by the company.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s executive reshuffling follows a public relations nightmare that started last month when a Cruise robotaxi<\/ins><\/a> hit a pedestrian in San Francisco and pinned them under the vehicle. The parent company, GM, is still conducting a safety probe on the accident and both autonomous and manual<\/ins><\/a> vehicle operations at Cruise remain suspended. The company\u2019s public image has been reeling from the accident ever since, and about 950 robotaxis<\/ins><\/a> had to be recalled by GM. The California DMV suspended Cruises\u2019 driverless permits shortly after, and that ruling has remained in place.<\/p>\n

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(1\/6) We learned today at 10:30 am PT of the California DMV\u2019s suspension of our driverless permits. As a result, we will be pausing operations of our driverless AVs in San Francisco. https:\/\/t.co\/A5HAV2WUv7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 cruise (@Cruise) October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

In a recent tweet, Cruise said that the company is focused on taking steps \u201cto rebuild public trust.\u201d Things have yet to look up for the company, especially after an expose by The Intercept <\/ins><\/em><\/a>revealed that the company knew its self-driving cars have trouble recognizing children and large holes in the roads<\/ins><\/a>. Furthermore, the former CEO said that<\/ins><\/a> the company would have to lay off an undisclosed number of employees and staff members in a memo.<\/p>\n

Cruise has not made any statements about finding replacements for either its CEO or chief product officer as of yet. The New York Times<\/ins><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reports that \u201cinstead of installing a new chief executive\u201d General Motors has appointed two new members to the company board and Mo Elshenawy, Cruise\u2019s executive vice president of engineering, will take up the role of President.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cruise-co-founder-resigns-following-ceo-exit-214747271.html?src=rss
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Cruise, the self-driving car company owned by General Motors, confirmed to Reuters that its co-founder and chief product officer Daniel Kan has resigned. Kan\u2019s departure comes just a day after the company\u2019s CEO Kyle Vogt announced his resignation on X … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1204868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}