The DMV's order of suspension, which TechCrunch has viewed, states that Cruise withheld video footage from an ongoing investigation, prompting the agency to suspend its permit. The DMV said it met with Cruise representatives on October 3, one day after an incident that left a pedestrian, who had initially been hit by a human-driven car, stuck under a Cruise robotaxi.
Curated from techcrunch.com · 24 October 2023 →
On 2 October 2023 a pedestrian in San Francisco was struck by a car that drove off and thrown into the path of a Cruise robotaxi. The robotaxi stopped, then executed a pull-over manoeuvre, moving about twenty feet with the person underneath it. The footage Cruise showed the California DMV the next day ended at the first stop. The regulator got the rest eleven days later and suspended the company's permits, saying its vehicles were not safe for public operation and that it had misrepresented their safety. Cruise pulled its fleet nationwide, its chief executive resigned, roughly a quarter of staff were laid off, and GM wound the business down in 2024. The vehicle's behaviour was one failure; the eleven days were the one that ended the company.
