GM ends support for Cruise robotaxis

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GM is giving up on its Cruise robotaxi subsidiary. The company

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today that it will fold Cruise into its own in-house technical team. Under the new strategy, this single unit will focus for now on developing advanced driver assistance programs, and in the future on fully autonomous personal vehicles.

GM

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Cruise in 2016. However, the robotaxi brand faced intense scrutiny last year after a pedestrian in San Francisco was

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by one of its driverless cars. The ensuing investigations saw Cruise stop all operations for

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and for its

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, and several of the company's leaders

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or were

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in the aftermath. In recent months, Cruise had resumed some

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, but the hit to public trust and safety after the pedestrian incident seem to have created an insurmountable hurdle for GM.

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