Cruise is writing a big check after it gave a false report to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Department of Justice revealed Thursday that the autonomous vehicle company, which is owned by General Motors, was fined 500-thousand dollars for the offense.
The DOJ said Cruise admitted to filing the report in order to sway a federal investigation into an incident that took place in October of 2023. At that time, a pedestrian in San Francisco was reportedly ran over and dragged 20 feet by one of the robo-taxis. Recently, Cruise was hit with a one-point-five-million dollar fine by NHTSA for failing to report certain details of that incident.
