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30 Sep

GM’s Cruise fined $1.5 million for omitting details about its gruesome 2023 crash

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On Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) fined Cruise, GM’s self-driving vehicle division, $1.5 million. The penalty was imposed for omitting key details from an October 2023 accident in which one of the company’s autonomous vehicles struck and dragged a San Francisco pedestrian.Cruise is being fined for initially submitting several incomplete reports. The NHTSA’s reports require pre-crash, crash and post-crash details, which the company gave to the agency without a critical detail: that the pedestrian was dragged by the vehicle for 20 feet at around 7 MPH, causing severe injuries. Eventually, the company released a 100-page report from…

20 Sep

Cruise resumes operations in California, thankfully with human drivers

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Autonomous vehicle outfit Cruise is slowly returning to operation in California following an incident in which a pedestrian was by a robotaxi for approximately 20 feet in October 2023. The company on X that it is reintroducing human-operated mapping vehicles to the streets in Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Its next stated goal is "to progress to supervised testing with up to 5 AVs later this fall."The past year has not been a pretty picture for Cruise, which was by GM in 2016. On October 2 last year, a pedestrian in San Francisco was hit by a human driver who fled…