Cruise introduced a spherical of layoffs Thursday affecting contract staff who labored on its driverless ridehailing service, CNBC has realized. The cuts included those that assist with cleansing autos, fleet charging and fielding buyer help inquiries.

The corporate declined to share a selected quantity.

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

Cruise informed CNBC that the layoffs are reflective of its present supervised driving operations, including that the corporate plans to renew driverless service however that it doesn’t have a selected timeline to share.

The information follows a barrage of security issues and incidents since Cruise, owned by Normal Motors, obtained approval in August for round the clock robotaxi service in San Francisco. This week, Cruise introduced it will recall 950 robotaxis after a pedestrian collision. In October, the California Division of Motor Autos on Tuesday suspended Cruise’s deployment and testing permits for its autonomous autos, efficient instantly.

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

In GM’s third-quarter earnings replace, the corporate stated it had misplaced roughly $1.9 billion on Cruise by way of September of this 12 months.

The DMV suspension got here every week after federal auto security regulators introduced they had been investigating Cruise following pedestrian accidents. The probe, spearheaded by the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration, was prompted by a number of reviews involving pedestrian accidents and Cruise autos in latest months, and it issues an estimated 594 self-driving Cruise autos, in accordance with the submitting.