GM’s Cruise Robotaxi Unit Lays Off 900 Workers With Investigation Into San Francisco Crash Ongoing

GM’s Cruise Robotaxi Unit Lays Off 900 Workers With Investigation Into San Francisco Crash Ongoing
A Cruise AV, General Motor's autonomous electric Bolt EV, in Detroit on Jan. 16, 2019. Paul Sancya/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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NEW YORK—General Motors’ troubled Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is cutting over 900 jobs, about a quarter of its workforce, as it moves to reduce costs and remake itself after a series of safety problems in San Francisco.

The subsidiary announced the cuts Thursday in a letter to Cruise’s 3,800 workers from President and Chief Technical Officer Mo ElShenawy, who wrote that the layoffs are not the fault of the workers.