Cruise LLC Chief Executive Officer Dan Ammann had a slate of meetings on Dec. 16 when he got an early afternoon call from General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra. She told Ammann he was being dismissed from the robotaxi startup that GM controls through a majority stake, say people familiar with the...
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Clearer explanation of why Ammann was fired from Cruise. Ammann wanted for focus on robotaxi while GM wanted to integrate the technology into it's product offerings. A real dilemma as I am sure GM realizes they are far behind Tesla.
Just give leading Mary a few more years managing Cruise and I am sure they will be tops in vehicle automation just like they are tops in EV's /s.
Tesla strategy here is looking more and more brilliant here as they will be able to unlock a lot of value once FSD refined.