Safety
NHTSA fined Cruise $1.5 million.
A crash, recall, injury or investigation
What the source says
“Three months later, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) slapped Cruise with a $1.5 million penalty.”
What it means
Cruise, from General Motors (Cruise), is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. Safety events don't move a stage on their own, but they stay on the robot's record.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Cruise
- Cruise cut nearly half of its staff. GM took full ownership and moved the work toward self-driving tech for personal cars.
- GM said it would stop funding the Cruise robotaxi business, citing competition and high costs.
- Cruise admitted to filing a false report to influence a federal investigation, and agreed to pay a $500,000 criminal fine.
- California's DMV suspended Cruise's permits to run driverless cars, after a crash in which a Cruise car trapped a pedestrian.
- A Cruise robotaxi ended up on top of a woman who had first been hit by another car. She was trapped underneath it.
- The US road-safety agency NHTSA opened an investigation into Cruise's self-driving system after several incidents with pedestrians.