General Motors Co. is cutting almost half of the workforce in the Cruise driverless car unit, according to an internal memo and people familiar with the matter, part of a previously announced plan to halt robotaxi service and absorb the operations into its broader business.

About 88% of remaining employees are in engineering or related roles, and impacted employees were given 60 days’ notice.

General Motors' Cruise robotaxi unit laid off approximately half its workforce Tuesday, as the automaker completed a previously announced plan to buy out remaining investors and refocus on self-driving cars for individual owners.

Defunct robotaxi company Cruise has begun to lay off employees today, sources tell The Verge. The layoffs come two months after General Motors said it would no longer fund Cruise, and would instead shift its spending toward advanced driver assist and personally owned autonomous vehicles.

Autonomous vehicle company Cruise is laying off “nearly” 50% of its workforce — cuts that extend to the CEO and several other top executives — as it prepares to shut down operations. What remains of Cruise will move under parent company General Motors as the automaker directs its resources toward improving its hands-free driver assistance system Super Cruise — and eventually rolls out personal autonomous vehicles.

Cruise, the San Francisco-based autonomous vehicle company that suspended operations in December, is laying off nearly half its staff after General Motors completed a full takeover of the company. GM,