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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 08: In an aerial view, Chevrolet Cruise autonomous vehicles sit parked in a staging area on June 08, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Autonomous vehicle companies Cruise and Waymo have been testing their vehicles throughout San Francisco and residents are not happy with the problems that the cars are bringing to the city. The cars frequently stop in the middle of roads for no reason, have driven through police crime tape and most recently struck and killed a dog. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Cruise , the GM self - driving machine subsidiary , has start put down off detail workers after pausing all of it driverless operations and drop off key commercial permission that allowed it to run a robotaxi service in San Francisco .

Cruise co - founder and CEO Kyle Vogt told employees during an all - hand coming together Monday that layoffs were coming , sources who were on the call told TechCrunch . At the sentence , Vogt suggested those layoff would start in about three workweek . Cruise would n’t share how many dependant upon worker it employed . The company has about 4,000 full - time employee .

The company told employees the decision was made for a few reasons , let in that driverless operations had been pause or “ deprioritized as we focalise on supervised driving for the time being , ” fit in to an interior message sent former Thursday sunup and viewed by TechCrunch .

The layoff follow a series of trip in recent calendar month that culminated in the California Department of Motor Vehiclessuspending the company ’s driverless fomite permit . The California Public Utilities Commission pulled Cruise ’s license , which permit it to charge for robotaxi rides , before long after . The agencies suspend Cruise ’s permission after an October 2 incident , in which a footer who was come to by a human equipment driver and then landed in the adjacent lane , was then run over by a   Cruise robotaxi . The robotaxi initiate its Pteridium aquilinum and came to a full stop with the footer under the fomite . The robotaxi then undertake to extract over , dragging the cleaning woman some 20 feet . That final decision by the robotaxi to undertake to pull over was part of the reason the agencies decided to debar the license .

Days later Cruise paused all of its driverless operations in other markets where it had more limited service , include Austin , Houston and Phoenix .

Cruise issued Wednesday arecall for 950 vehiclesequipped with its independent vehicle software follow the October 2 crash that leave behind a walker , who had ab initio been hit by a man - push railroad car , get under and then drag by one of the caller ’s robotaxis .

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The company said in a web log mail and in the recall notice filed with the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration that it issued the recollection after an psychoanalysis of the robotaxi ’s response October 2 discover the “ collision detection subsystem may make the Cruise AV to attempt to deplumate over out of dealings or else of remaining stationary when a pullover is not the desired post - collision response . ”