Is Cruise laying everybody off?
Heard rumors of layoffs due to the old CEOs failures and GM investors getting antsy. Any cruise folks have info? Answer is confirmed yes: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/cruise-driverless-car-layoffs-morale-low-18537641.php
No one there really knows. Leadership said theyβre going to cut costs massively, so that implies a lot of layoffs. The amount and distribution is totally unknown. But GM leadership is trash so expect them to do the stupidest possible thing here
I mean. They were the first to launch a consumer robotaxi. Good safety record. Now the CEO is gone. Anyone that could get a semi-decent offer at waymo, zoox, xpeng, Google, or heck even X will be gone soon....and unlike X you can't get by with a skeleton crew since they want to build something new. Cruise is dead. They might be able to sell it for a couple of billions at best. GM already did the stupidest thing.
Doubt Zoox will be much better in the long term.
Cruise effed up and hid video of its car dragging someone 20 feet underneath the vehicle from the CA DMV. Corrupt mother fuckers.
What's weird is that they didn't just pay off whoever is in charge of these licenses in CA, waited until the media shitstorm ended, and resumed business as usual. You'd expect an actually corrupt leader to do exactly that.
Not corrupt just incompetent
Automated driving is doing poorly since the accidents. So shouldn't be surprised
Fully autonomous driving isn't going to happen at scale until multimodal reasoning capabilities of the most advanced LLMs today can be miniaturized to run on these cars. Otherwise it'll always be remotely assisted cars over unreliable networks.
And I am working on this, glad more people agree π₯π₯
All you need are transformers, snake oil, and crossed fingers
No. If you listen to the earnings call, the "substantial" cost savings were described as a few hundred million. GM is likely smart enough to realize Cruise has great engineers, and has bad politics, and fire the appropriate people. We shall see.
.... LoL. After that rug pull do you think they'll be able to retain any great engineer?
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/new-leader-gms-cruise-acknowledges-all-time-low-amid-safety-review-2023-12-05/