Source: SFGate
“San Francisco robotaxi company Cruise’s long saga over its car’s 2023 dragging of a knocked-over pedestrian has finally reached an end, with the company admitting to criminal behavior and agreeing to pay a $500,000 penalty. On Thursday, company President Craig Glidden signed a legal agreement with Martha Boersch, who leads the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. In the document, Cruise admits to hiding the immediate aftermath of an Oct. 2, 2023, crash — when the company’s robotaxi dragged a pedestrian it had hit after she was knocked over by another car — from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Glidden, in signing the document, barred Cruise from ever again contradicting that narrative of events. Alongside the agreement, Boersch filed a document accusing Cruise of a felony offense, ‘Falsification of Records in Federal Investigation.'” (11/17/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/cruise-fine-criminal-cover-up-19920343.php