GM's Cruise reveals dual US probes into grisly collision and company's response

GM's Cruise self-driving car unit on Thursday revealed US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission probes stemming from an October collision in which one of its autonomous vehicles dragged a pedestrian who had been struck by another vehicle. Cruise reported the government investigations in a blog post in which the company also vowed to reform its culture stemming from a "failure of leadership" around the incident. The blog post did not disclose the status of the victim, who was dragged 20ft by the vehicle, nor the scope of the justice department and SEC probes. Cruise's four-page post cited "inadequate and uncoordinated internal processes, mistakes in judgment, an'us versus them' mentality with government officials, and a fundamental misunderstanding of regulatory requirements and expectations". More than 100 people knew details of the incident prior to Cruise's meetings with regulators, the report found.