The automaker said it will combine Cruise, of which GM is majority owner, and GM technical teams into a single effort to advance autonomous and assisted driving in personal cars. As a result, GM said it will no longer fund Cruise’s robotaxi development,

The news came by Slack message. Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June, posted a message Tuesday afternoon in the company’s

In light of such difficult economics, what made robotaxi the dominant go-to-market strategy for autonomous vehicles? To understand the reasons why, let’s consider the history of AVs. The idea of autonomous vehicles has been around for decades.