Cruise, the embattled self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors, said on Thursday that it would eliminate about 900 jobs, roughly a quarter of its work force, as the company looked to rein in costs after an October incident led California regulators to shut down its robot taxi operations.
Cruise's troubles can be traced to an Oct. 2 crash when a car hit a woman at a San Francisco intersection and flung her into the path of one of Cruise's driverless taxis. The Cruise car dragged the woman some 20 feet before pulling to the curb, causing severe injuries. Regulators accused Cruise of omitting footage of its car dragging the woman from a video that it provided to state officials. Since then, G.M., which bought the self-driving car start-up in 2016 for $1 billion, has stepped in to steer Cruise forward.
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