Setback
GM said it would stop funding the Cruise robotaxi business, citing competition and high costs.
A delay, pause or setback
What the source says
“General Motors is shutting down its Cruise robotaxi project, citing intense competition for self-driving cars”
What it means
Cruise, from General Motors (Cruise), is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. A setback stays on the record next to the milestones; the stage moves down only when the rules say so.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Cruise
- Cruise cut nearly half of its staff. GM took full ownership and moved the work toward self-driving tech for personal cars.
- Cruise admitted to filing a false report to influence a federal investigation, and agreed to pay a $500,000 criminal fine.
- NHTSA fined Cruise $1.5 million.
- California's DMV suspended Cruise's permits to run driverless cars, after a crash in which a Cruise car trapped a pedestrian.
- A Cruise robotaxi ended up on top of a woman who had first been hit by another car. She was trapped underneath it.
- The US road-safety agency NHTSA opened an investigation into Cruise's self-driving system after several incidents with pedestrians.