General Motors is taking a more active role in shaping Cruise’s safety culture after a series of incidents prompted action by California regulators. Suspend license This allows the autonomous vehicle subsidiary to conduct commercial operations in the state. The legacy automaker is naming its own executive, who is also a member of Cruise’s board of directors, to oversee the self-driving car company’s legal and policy, communications and financial affairs teams.
Craig Glidden, GM’s executive vice president of legal and policy and a member of Cruise’s board of directors, will serve as Cruise’s chief administrative officer. According to Cruise, Glidden will oversee work processes around transparency and community engagement.
Cruise said it will also suspend all supervised and manual self-driving vehicle operations in the United States, which the company said affects about 70 vehicles. Cruise already Proactively suspend all driverless services On Oct. 2, a pedestrian was struck by a human-driven vehicle and dragged 20 feet. Cruise robot taxi.
“This orderly pause is another step in rebuilding public trust while we conduct a comprehensive security review,” one person said. Blog article Changes announced by the company.
Early November, Cruise hires Exponent consultants Conduct technical root cause analysis October 2nd IncidentThe company said on Tuesday the responsibilities would be expanded to include a comprehensive review of all Cruise safety systems and technology.
Cruise’s board also said it will hire third-party security experts in the coming weeks to conduct a comprehensive review of the company’s security operations and culture. The move follows the lead of other AV companies, including those facing scrutiny over their safety practices. After a fatal self-driving crash in Arizona in May 2018, the ride-hailing company’s former self-driving car division hired former National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart to advise the company on its safety culture.
Outside Security Experts In addition to last week’s announcement that Cruise would hire a chief security officer to report directly to Vogt, other AV companies such as Aurora also have dedicated chief security officers. Cruise did not respond immediately to confirm whether the company had a senior executive responsible for the company’s security affairs.
A survey shows BlindAn anonymous forum for verified employees hosted by TechCrunch found that half of Cruise employees have either no confidence at all (32%) or only a little confidence (18%) in Cruise’s safety culture. More than three-quarters of the 136 Cruise employees surveyed from Nov. 7 to Nov. 8 believed Cruise was expanding too quickly.
The changes come a day after Cruise and GM held a board meeting to discuss the embattled self-driving company’s next steps.CEO Kyle Vogt warned employees last week that layoffs were coming, and then the company Start laying off contract workers.