The automaker is also testing a similar robotaxi service in California. In those rides, a human is behind the wheel and ready to intervene if the self-driving vehicle encounters issues.

General Motors announced major layoffs at Cruise, its robotaxi venture, as it moves away from robotaxis following an unfortunate event in Las Vegas last year. About 1,000 employees have been put ...

GENERAL Motors (GM) is cutting almost half of the workforce in the Cruise driverless car unit, according to an internal memo ...

The layoffs come nearly two months after GM said it would no longer fund the development of a commercial robotaxi business and would instead focus on building personal autonomous vehicle technology.

part of a previously announced plan to halt robotaxi service and absorb the operations into its broader business. Several of Cruise’s leaders, including Chief Executive Officer Marc Whitten ...