General Motors Co said on Monday its self-driving car subsidiary, Cruise, plans ...
FILE PHOTO: A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco where it does most of its testing, in California, U.S., September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Heather Somerville
- General Motors Co said on Monday its self-driving car subsidiary, Cruise, plans to hire 1,000 more people over the next nine months, as the No.1 U.S. carmaker aims to launch a robotaxi service by the end of 2019.Wert said the majority of those hired will be engineers but didn’t give a specific number. The company currently employs more than 1,000 people.
The unit’s human resources division will be led by file sharing and storage company Dropbox Inc’s Arden Hoffman, technology news website TechCrunch reported on Monday.Reporting by Benjamin Klayman in Detroit and Shradha Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila
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