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Robot Car Crash Investigation Concludes GM’s Cruise Didn’t Disclose Key Information

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A law firm hired by the General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary Cruise to investigate the company’s response to a gruesome San Francisco crash last year found that the company failed to fully disclose disturbing details to regulators, the tech company said today in a blog post. The incident in October led California regulators to suspend Cruise’s … Read more

GM’s Cruise laying off 900, or 24% of its workforce: Read the memo

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General Motors’ Cruise on Thursday announced internally that it will lay off 900 employees, or 24% of its workforce, the company confirmed to CNBC. The layoffs, which primarily affected commercial operations and related corporate functions, are the latest turmoil for the robotaxi startup and come one day after Cruise dismissed nine “key leaders” for the … Read more

GM’s hydrogen ‘power cubes’ will be used to power massive mining trucks

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General Motors announced a new partnership with Japanese construction vehicle manufacturer Komatsu to build heavy-duty mining trucks powered by the automaker’s hydrogen fuel-cell technology. The company will work with the Japanese firm to install its Hydrotec-branded “power cubes,” each containing 300 individual hydrogen fuel cells with an output of 80 kW of new power, into … Read more

UAW workers at GM’s Flint assembly narrowly vote against new labor deal

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(Reuters) -Workers belonging to the United Auto Workers (UAW) at General Motors’ Flint assembly plant in Michigan have narrowly voted against a proposed contract with the U.S. automaker, the union’s local chapter said. In a Facebook post on Thursday, the UAW Local 598 said 51.8% of votes cast were against the proposed deal. GM said … Read more

GM’s Cruise Rethinks Its Robotaxi Strategy After Admitting a Software Fault in Gruesome Crash

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In August 2016, WIRED visited the San Francisco offices of a young startup recently snapped up by a surprising buyer. General Motors acquired three-year-old Cruise for a reported $1 billion in hopes the straitlaced Detroit automaker could coopt the self-driving technology tipped to disrupt the auto industry. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt—a scrappy Twitch cofounder who … Read more

GM’s Cruise Halts Self-Driving Operations Across the US After Regulator Safety Fears

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Cruise, the self-driving arm of General Motors, said late today it had halted its robotaxi service across the US and would no longer operate its vehicles without safety drivers behind the wheel. That decision to hit the brakes comes two days after California regulators suspended the driverless-car company’s permit in San Francisco, alleging that Cruise … Read more

GM’s Cruise Loses Its Self-Driving License in San Francisco After a Robotaxi Dragged a Person

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Cruise says the vehicle then stopped again. Emergency responders arrived soon after, according to TV station NBC Bay Area, and the San Francisco Fire Department said the victim was “extricated from beneath the vehicle using rescue tools.” The department said she was transported to the hospital with multiple traumatic injuries. The human driver of the … Read more

GM’s BrightDrop makes first industrial EVs supply exterior US

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BrightDrop, the electrical supply van subsidiary of Basic Motors, has made its first supply exterior of the U.S. The corporate delivered 50 BrightDrop Zevo 600 electrical vans to FedEx Specific Canada on Wednesday, half of a bigger order of two,500 Zevo EVs. The introduction of BrightDrop’s vans is consistent with FedEx’s objective to shift its … Read more