General Motors has turned to Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry, to oversee its entire product line of gas-powered and

General Motors hired Sterling Anderson, co-founder of autonomous trucking company Aurora, to be its chief product officer, a new role with broad responsibilities to overhaul the way GM designs, engineers and builds high-tech cars of the future.

General Motors Co. on Monday appointed a former Tesla Inc. leader and the co-founder of a self-driving vehicle company to oversee global products at the Detroit automaker, which has struggled to match electric and self-driving technology offered by Elon Musk's Tesla.