Kyle Vogt plans to ‘spend time with my family and explore some new ideas’
The CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise has parked his career and strolled off into the sunset.
Kyle Vogt founded Cruise Automation in 2013. The startup was acquired by General Motors in 2016, and worked to develop a driverless taxi service that commenced operations on the streets of San Francisco in 2022.
Cruise has had a bumpy ride ever since. Here’s a timeline of its problems:
Vogt signed off on X (the microblogging service formerly known as Twitter) with a thread that opened with the simple statement: « Today I resigned from my position as CEO of Cruise. »
Subsequent posts noted « The startup I launched in my garage has given over 250,000 driverless rides across several cities » and saw Vogt opine « Cruise is still just getting started, and I believe it has a great future ahead.
