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Cruise Offering $75,000 To California Regulators To Resolve Crash Investigation

Cruise – General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary – has been under fire since early October 2023, when a pedestrian was unintentionally trapped and dragged underneath a Cruise AV unit after being struck by a human-driven vehicle. Following this incident, the autonomous driving company has been subject to various investigations, and now, has offered California regulators a lump sum of money to resolve their inquiry.

According to a report from Reuters, Cruise offered $75,000 to California regulators for its California Public Utilities Commission-ordered hearing to be deferred. More specifically, the self-driving company is seeking an alternative mode of dispute resolution.

It’s worth noting that Cruise also offered to boost its reporting of collisions to the California Public Utilities Commission as part of its settlement offer.

Side view of Cruise AV unit.

In a statement last Friday, Cruise went on to explain that the investigation was expected to be completed, with findings, before February 6th, 2024. For reference, the California Commission ordered the hearing back in December 2023, citing the robotaxi company for misleading the commission by not providing all the details surrounding the extent and seriousness of the accident, as well as for expressing misleading comments on interactions between the two entities.

A Cruise spokesperson stated that the self-driving company “is committed to undertaking significant process improvements with respect to its interactions with regulators” and “committed to increased transparency, cooperation, and rebuilding regulatory trust with the commission.”

As a reminder, Cruise has already taken a number of steps to address the October 2023 incident following a substantial amount of public backlash. For starters, all Cruise AV rides – including manual and supervised – have been temporarily suspended until further notice as the company expands investigations into its analysis of the incident, while a recall was released to update the collision detection system in its robotaxi units.

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  1. You could have easily killed this person and you want to be left off the hook for 75 grand? I hope Cal regulators go thru every line of code and it takes years to resolve. I still believe ALL AV’s should be pulled off the public roads. Let the testing happen on a multi-billion dollar road system the AV companies build on their dime. Tesla’s have chopped people in half, and now cruise has drug them bloody. Where does it stop? A squad of AV’s that goes AWOL and starts mowing people down?

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    1. If mkAtx thinks autonomous vehicles are a danger, what does mkAtx think about person driven vehicles that kill people everyday, drunk drivers, drivers on their phones , distracted drivers, etc. Should we ban all vehicles and go back to horses and carriage? I agree about the 75 grand, that’s just off the wall weird. By the way many newer vehicles can be controlled remotely, even if a driver is behind the wheel, they can not stop it. Check out youtube. No person should ever get injured/killed in a vehicle ever, the technologies car companies are developing will go along way to safer roads for everyone. Vehicle manufacturers should put their dollars into technology to negate phone usage and driving under the influence.

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  2. Bribery?

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  3. we call this a bribe here…. and it needs to be way higher. the donation is insufficient jej

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  4. AV … for snowflakes who would rather be texting their co-dependant loser friends than driving .

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  5. Wait ’til the investigators find out a human tech at the Control Center took over the vehicle and, not knowing there was an injured pedestrian underneath, “drove it” to the side of the street .

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  6. In other words, “bribery”.

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