Cruise Cofounder Dan Kan Resigns Following CEO’s Departure

On Monday morning, Cruise’s cofounder and chief product officer Dan Kan resigned from the corporate, lower than 24 hours after his fellow cofounder and CEO Kyle Vogt introduced his resignation.

The information was first reported by Reuters. Kan himself didn’t instantly reply to Forbes’ request for remark.

The cofounder exodus comes roughly six weeks after a essential October 2 accident within the firm’s hometown of San Francisco that left a girl in essential situation for weeks. In that incident, the pedestrian was crossing a San Francisco road when she was hit by a human driver and flung into the trail of an oncoming Cruise autonomous automobile, which dragged her roughly 20 toes.

On October 24, the California DMV yanked Cruise’s working allow, and two days later the corporate pulled all of its remaining AVs from its operational cities in Arizona and Texas. Beforehand, Cruise had focused a rollout of its fleet to a complete of 10 cities, together with Nashville and San Diego by the tip of 2023.

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