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

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 a law firm detailing its failures surrounding the accident.