Kyle Vogt, the founder of Cruise, has resigned as CEO for the autonomous driving company.
Vogt announced his resignation as Cruise CEO on social media. Notably, this was his second stint serving as CEO, as he took over following Dan Amman’s departure from the robotaxi subsidiary in December 2021.
According to a report from Automotive News, the CEO title will be split between two individuals, Mo Elshenawy and Craig Glidden. Elshenawy currently serves as Cruise Executive Vice President of Engineering and will assume President and Chief Technology Officer duties.
Meanwhile, Glidden currently serves as General Motors’ Executive Vice President of Legal and Policy and as a Cruise board member, and will also assume President and Chief Technology Officer roles. In addition, Glidden has also been appointed to Vice Chairman of Cruise’s board, serving alongside Chair Mary Barra.
As a reminder, this recent development is the latest in the fallout surrounding Cruise over the past two months. For starters, a pedestrian was unintentionally trapped and dragged underneath a Cruise AV unit after being struck by a human-driven vehicle back in early October 2023. Since then, the self-driving company has been under increased scrutiny and subject to various repercussions, including an NHTSA investigation and California DMV driverless permit suspension.
Today I resigned from my position as CEO of Cruise. (1/5)
— Kyle Vogt (@kvogt) November 20, 2023
More recently, Cruise announced that all Cruise AV rides – manual and supervised – have been suspended as the company expanded investigations into its analysis of the aforementioned accident.
“The results from our ongoing review will inform additional next steps as we work to build a better Cruise centered around safety, transparency, and trust,” Cruise claimed in a statement.
Additionally, Cruise also released a recall to update the collision detection system in its robotaxi units, which now provides provisions in the case of another pedestrian-related incident.
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As I have stated for two years now……Automakers will be licensing Teslas FSD Software and that will include GM
What a disaster this year has been for GM. They cannot figure out how to scale up Battery Production and Mass Produce their EV’s and now this.
Who will have to answer for all these issues?
Musk has been claiming Tesla’s will be fully autonomous for years yet publications claim SuperCruise is. Ore advanced.
Musk has been claiming the cyber tuck would be for sale for several years. Still nothing. Even Chevy has produced and sold more silverado EVs.
Oh, and why aren’t you complaining about the cyber trucks tiny little frunk.
When are you finally going to hold Musks feet to the fire versus humping his bad wagon and providing financial support for his hatred?
Being a gm apologist and not holding their feet to the fire is not helping gm. How many $Billion plus, debacles are you going to allow before you demand change? The stated number one direction of gm is EV’s, yet they cannot produce batteries and their tech-leading EV company Cruise is in a $Billion free fall.
gm had class leading tech in the hybrid / electric market with the Volt and they threw it away – yeah that’s right, hybrids. The vehicle type that is selling radically better than EV’s and is expected to do so for the foreseeable future.
If “Mary” were a “Gary” she would have been fired a while ago.
“No More Crappy Cars” – Mary Barra’s directive upon assuming leadership at General Motors in 2013… Time for a change…
Automakers will learn allbeit slowly how to do thier own tech. gm’s ultra cruise can do more than FSD. Even cruise is still ahead of tesla with all of the scandals and problems thier having. Consider that gm released thier first ev in 2017 and has been learning along the way. Comparable to tesla which started mass producing anything in 2010. Any automaker is naturally behind so comparing them now to tesla and other pure ev companies is pretty naive. Give it around 2030 and that’s when we will finally see a more level and comparable playing field.
…the company previously known as GM launched its first EV (the EV1) 30 years ago.
Money ship(pit) time to bail.
Good, He can go pedal his snake oil elsewhere.
He tried. Supercruise is superior to other autonomous driving tech out there. Its just not fully baked in yet, it will need more time.
Cruise (the GM subsidiary and topic of this article) and “Super Cruise” are not the same thing.
Am sad to hear Kyle is leaving Cruise.
He is an amazing person and is contributing to a future technology that will be/is appreciated and needed by many.
Good luck to him and hope Cruise is back up and running soon.
He can pedal some other crap someplace else. Hopefully this will be the end of Cruise and this stupid idea that IS NOT appreciated by most.
AV … the multi-$BILLION answer to a question no one asked.
It’s right up there with “invisible money” .
“unintentionally trapped an dragged”
… as opposed to someone who was “intentionally” trapped and dragged.
You gotta love the choice of words.
Waiting for MARY BARRA Resignation!!!!! – She is the CEO that called all the shots. Mary even got in cohost with the Board of Directors and fired GM Co-CEO Dan Ammann, the only person looking out for GM shareholders. Please Mary RESIGN. Everything she puts her hand on turn out very bad for GM. None of the battery plants are up to schedule output, Cruise a super huge waste of GM money. Electric autos all behind of scheduling. She cost GM $billions in contract agreement because she awarded herself Millions in bonus after her terrible performances. UAW used this as their #1 bargaining tool.