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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Elon Musk had a lot to say about Tesla’s upcoming Robotaxi service on Wednesday. Tesla will be launching an unsupervised Full-Self Driving (FSD) service in Austin in June. What does that mean ...

In Tesla’s 4Q24 Earnings call, which reported sales and profits below expectations, Elon Musk claimed that Tesla would launch an “unsupervised” robotaxi service in Austin, Texas by June of ...

The company on Wednesday opened up its interest list so that curious riders can declare their interest in potentially being matched with a Waymo robotaxi, once that partnership launches "soon" in ...

Tesla has released a video showing robotic cleaning of the Tesla Cybercab. This will greatly improve the economics of robotaxi. Farzad and others have estimated cleaning as a potentially big cost of ...

The days of being forced to have awkward interactions with Uber drivers may be coming to an end in Austin. Starting this week, Uber has opened its waitlist to residents who will soon have access ...

The move to gut the staff punctuates GM’s rapid retreat from the robotaxi business and strategic shift on autonomy. As recently as late 2024, the company had been planning to take the driver out ...

Uber customers in Austin may notice a new offer when they open the app and hail a ride: an invitation to signal their interest in a Waymo robotaxi. For now, this doesn’t translate into a Waymo ...

Uber is inviting customers to join an interest list if they want to ride in a Waymo robotaxi. Uber is inviting customers to join an interest list if they want to ride in a Waymo robotaxi.