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Re:I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again by reTensor on Monday February 28, 2022 @05:33PM (#30506095)
The failure to launch in 2019 was shortly after Ammann took over (late 2018).

Ammann inherited Vogt's mess, and at that time nobody in management fully understood how bad the situation was. Ammann promptly began fixing things and we see the fruits of that today.

Ammann's departure, to the best of our knowledge, is a result of a conflict with GM's CEO regarding the future of Cruise as a business.

Hopefully Vogt can preserve, and successfully build on, what Ammann accomplished.

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Re:I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again by omeze on Monday February 28, 2022 @05:50PM (#30506261)
fully appreciate if you can't go into detail, but what changed? It seems like they'd always been working towards robotaxi-ing from a product perspective so it must have come down to execution-level stuff, no?
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