Cruise, the autonomous car startup owned by Common Motors, has paused all of its driverless operations after collisions led to investigations, a disagreement with state regulators, and a suspension of its licenses in California earlier this week.

The autonomous car maker, based by CEO Kyle Vogt in 2013, had beforehand initiated driverless operations in San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas and Miami.

GM mentioned on Tuesday that the corporate misplaced roughly $1.9 billion on Cruise by way of September this yr, together with $732 million within the third quarter alone. On that very same day, after GM’s third quarter earnings replace, the California Division of Motor Automobiles introduced that it had suspended Cruise’s deployment and testing permits within the state.

The orders of suspension from the DMV adopted a barrage of security considerations and incidents since Cruise obtained approval in August to conduct around-the-clock robotaxi service in San Francisco. The California Public Utilities fee additionally suspended a license giving Cruise permission to move and cost passengers for rides in its robotaxis within the state.

In a single high-profile incident in early October, the human driver of one other car struck a pedestrian in San Francisco, launching her into the trail of a Cruise self-driving automobile. Based on DMV data obtained by CNBC, the Cruise autonomous car got here to a whole cease and “subsequently tried to carry out a pullover maneuver whereas the pedestrian was beneath the car.”

The DMV report mentioned, “The AV traveled roughly 20 toes and reached a pace of seven mph earlier than coming to a subsequent and last cease,” and “the pedestrian remained below the car.” The DMV wrote in its orders of suspension despatched to Cruise, “the producer’s automobiles will not be secure for the general public’s operation” and that they “could lack the flexibility to reply in a secure and acceptable method throughout incidents involving a pedestrian.”

On LinkedIn on Thursday evening, Cruise wrote:

The transfer comes two days after GM CEO Mary Barra mentioned a number of instances that the automaker believes Cruise automobiles are safer than human drivers.

“We do consider that Cruise has great alternative to develop and increase. Security will probably be our gating issue as we try this, and persevering with to work with the cities that we’re deploying in,” Barra mentioned throughout a third-quarter earnings name, saying GM plans to help Cruise’s enlargement.

Barra talked about Cruise on Tuesday for instance of the corporate’s historical past of “defining the way forward for transportation,” and mentioned the self-driving enterprise “continues to push the boundaries of what AV know-how can ship to society.” She mentioned security “is at all times on the forefront, and that is one thing they’re repeatedly enhancing.”

Cruise will maintain working its autonomous automobiles with human security drivers behind the wheel, supervising the drives, the corporate additionally mentioned on Thursday.

A GM spokesperson referred all inquiries to Cruise, declining to touch upon any involvement of the automaker or Barra within the resolution to pause operations. Honda, a minority shareholder of Cruise, didn’t instantly reply for remark.