Glidden – Cruise President and Chief Administrative Officer.
Cruise CEO Kyle Voght resigned on Sunday and there are media reports that the chief product officer and co-founder Daniel Can also resigned. You wouldn’t know it from the Cruise web site, which remains mute on the defections or what look to be forced resignations.
The site simply placed the GM Executive now in charge under the president heading in the About Cruise tab. Perhaps more clarification about titles awaits a GM Board meeting? Does the current posting align with SEC regulation FD (Fair Disclosure)? This in AutoInformed’s view is a material development.
Herewith the tab copy:
President and Chief Administrative Officer, Cruise EVP of Legal & Policy, GM
Craig B. Glidden is executive vice president for Legal (general counsel and corporate secretary), Global Public Policy and Cybersecurity, Strategic Technology Initiatives of General Motors. Glidden joined GM in March 2015 as executive vice president and general counsel. While in that role, he led a transformation of GM’s global legal operations to support the company’s vision of a future with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion. Glidden was named executive vice president of Global Public Policy and assumed the responsibilities of corporate secretary in 2021. He also began leading Cybersecurity and Strategic Technology initiatives in 2022.
The site does note that “We have temporarily paused driverless service.” From GM’s last SEC 10Q:
“Cruise Cruise is currently operating in San Francisco, California, and Austin, Texas, and is testing in multiple other U.S. cities. In October 2023, NHTSA opened an investigation into Cruise to determine whether Cruise AVs exercise appropriate caution around pedestrians. On October 24, 2023, in connection with an accident involving a pedestrian in San Francisco in early October, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suspended Cruise’s permits to operate AVs in California without a safety driver. Cruise is cooperating with NHTSA, the California DMV, the California Public Utilities Commission and local law enforcement in connection with these matters.”
As AutoInformed said on 17 November when Glidden first appeared:
Well, it seems that the discovery that Cruise altered released accident footage to eliminate one of its accident vehicles dragging a pedestrian with it as it continued to run (drive away?) has moved the normally buttoned-down GM safety culture and it people to the verge of, well, annoyance. So send in the lawyers to monitor the California clowns starting with Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt.
“In addition, the Cruise Board will retain a third-party safety expert in the coming weeks to perform a full assessment of Cruise’s safety operations and culture. These independent findings will help further guide and inform the work we have initiated,” Cruise said.
Cruise previously hired the independent, third-party engineering consulting firm, Exponent, to conduct a technical root cause analysis of the 2 October incident. That work is ongoing, and the Board plans to expand Exponent’s responsibility to include a comprehensive review of Cruise safety systems and technology.
On 26 October Cruise announced a pause of all driverless operations while it “reviews processes, systems, and tools to improve how we operate. In the coming days, we are also pausing our supervised and manual AV operations in the U.S., affecting roughly 70 vehicles. This orderly pause is a further step to rebuild public trust while we undergo a full safety review. We will continue to operate our vehicles in closed course training environments and maintain an active simulation program in order to stay focused on advancing AV technology.
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Cruise CEO Resigns as GM Revamps Embattled Company
Glidden – Cruise President and Chief Administrative Officer.
Cruise CEO Kyle Voght resigned on Sunday and there are media reports that the chief product officer and co-founder Daniel Can also resigned. You wouldn’t know it from the Cruise web site, which remains mute on the defections or what look to be forced resignations.
The site simply placed the GM Executive now in charge under the president heading in the About Cruise tab. Perhaps more clarification about titles awaits a GM Board meeting? Does the current posting align with SEC regulation FD (Fair Disclosure)? This in AutoInformed’s view is a material development.
Herewith the tab copy:
President and Chief Administrative Officer, Cruise EVP of Legal & Policy, GM
Craig B. Glidden is executive vice president for Legal (general counsel and corporate secretary), Global Public Policy and Cybersecurity, Strategic Technology Initiatives of General Motors. Glidden joined GM in March 2015 as executive vice president and general counsel. While in that role, he led a transformation of GM’s global legal operations to support the company’s vision of a future with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion. Glidden was named executive vice president of Global Public Policy and assumed the responsibilities of corporate secretary in 2021. He also began leading Cybersecurity and Strategic Technology initiatives in 2022.
The site does note that “We have temporarily paused driverless service.” From GM’s last SEC 10Q:
“Cruise Cruise is currently operating in San Francisco, California, and Austin, Texas, and is testing in multiple other U.S. cities. In October 2023, NHTSA opened an investigation into Cruise to determine whether Cruise AVs exercise appropriate caution around pedestrians. On October 24, 2023, in connection with an accident involving a pedestrian in San Francisco in early October, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suspended Cruise’s permits to operate AVs in California without a safety driver. Cruise is cooperating with NHTSA, the California DMV, the California Public Utilities Commission and local law enforcement in connection with these matters.”
As AutoInformed said on 17 November when Glidden first appeared:
Well, it seems that the discovery that Cruise altered released accident footage to eliminate one of its accident vehicles dragging a pedestrian with it as it continued to run (drive away?) has moved the normally buttoned-down GM safety culture and it people to the verge of, well, annoyance. So send in the lawyers to monitor the California clowns starting with Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt.
“In addition, the Cruise Board will retain a third-party safety expert in the coming weeks to perform a full assessment of Cruise’s safety operations and culture. These independent findings will help further guide and inform the work we have initiated,” Cruise said.
Cruise previously hired the independent, third-party engineering consulting firm, Exponent, to conduct a technical root cause analysis of the 2 October incident. That work is ongoing, and the Board plans to expand Exponent’s responsibility to include a comprehensive review of Cruise safety systems and technology.
On 26 October Cruise announced a pause of all driverless operations while it “reviews processes, systems, and tools to improve how we operate. In the coming days, we are also pausing our supervised and manual AV operations in the U.S., affecting roughly 70 vehicles. This orderly pause is a further step to rebuild public trust while we undergo a full safety review. We will continue to operate our vehicles in closed course training environments and maintain an active simulation program in order to stay focused on advancing AV technology.
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