Cruise LLC's next chief executive officer will be Kyle Vogt, the former CEO who's been acting as interim chief of the self-driving company since the abrupt departure of Dan Ammann.
Vogt, 36, who is also a co-founder of Cruise, announced the "fun news" Monday on Twitter: "I have no doubt it will be a difficult challenge given our very ambitious plans, but I couldn't imagine doing anything more important or more fun. I'm never going to have trouble getting out of bed."
The news comes as Cruise, which is majority-owned by General Motors Co., is targeting commercial deployment of its driverless taxi service this year and has started offering free rides in San Francisco to consumers. Cruise and GM recently filed an application with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to build and deploy the electric, autonomous Cruise Origin shuttle.
