Cruise, Common Motors‘ embattled driverless automotive unit, stated Tuesday it is going to pause all public highway operations — each supervised and guide — in an growth of final month’s pause of driverless operations.

“This orderly pause is an additional step to rebuild public belief whereas we bear a full security assessment,” Cruise wrote in a weblog submit. “We’ll proceed to function our automobiles in closed course coaching environments and preserve an lively simulation program in an effort to keep targeted on advancing AV know-how.”

The self-driving automotive unit has confronted a barrage of security considerations and incidents because it obtained approval in August for round the clock robotaxi service in San Francisco. Final week, Cruise introduced it will recall 950 robotaxis after a pedestrian collision. In October, the California Division of Motor Autos suspended Cruise’s deployment and testing permits for its autonomous automobiles, efficient instantly.

“When there’s an unreasonable danger to public security, the DMV can instantly droop or revoke permits,” the California DMV stated in a press release on the time.

Federal auto security regulators are additionally investigating Cruise following a number of reviews about pedestrian accidents.

The choice to droop all journeys on public roads comes after a board assembly Monday at Cruise’s headquarters in San Francisco. The corporate additionally introduced a reorganization and extra oversight from GM: Craig Glidden, GM’s EVP of authorized and coverage, will grow to be Cruise’s chief administrative officer, with Cruise’s authorized and coverage, communications and finance groups as direct reviews. Glidden can even work intently with CEO Kyle Vogt and senior management to “oversee the workstreams round Transparency and Neighborhood Engagement,” in keeping with Cruise.

The corporate additionally introduced that it’ll rent an unbiased “security knowledgeable” in coming weeks to evaluate Cruise’s security operations and tradition, constructing upon its resolution to rent a chief security officer, introduced final week. As well as, Exponent — the engineering consulting agency Cruise employed to research an Oct. 2 crash that led to a pedestrian’s crucial accidents — will now be increasing its probe right into a full assessment of Cruise’s tech and security programs, in keeping with the weblog submit.

Cruise didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

The suspension is rippling by means of the corporate. Final Thursday, Cruise introduced a spherical of contractor layoffs.

“Cruise has made the troublesome resolution to scale back a portion of the contingent workforce that supported driverless ridehail operations,” an organization spokesperson instructed CNBC Thursday in a press release. “These contingent employees had been accountable for work comparable to cleansing, charging and sustaining the fleet, and we’re grateful for his or her contributions.” 

One Cruise contractor, who labored for the corporate by means of Unifi and requested anonymity, instructed CNBC that on paper, which will have been the job description, however essentially, they had been additionally typically in control of reprogramming automobiles, bodily updating automobiles after a software program replace, offloading knowledge and extra. The contractor additionally stated that a few of their coworkers discovered by way of an indication posted about shifts being canceled, together with an e-mail.

Cruise instructed CNBC on Thursday that the layoffs mirrored its short-term suspension of driverless actions, and that the corporate deliberate to “proceed supervised operations with out passengers.” Nevertheless, as of now it has suspended these operations as properly.

In GM’s third-quarter earnings replace, the corporate stated it had misplaced roughly $1.9 billion on Cruise by means of September of this yr.