Cruise closes one robotaxi investigation with a recall

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The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is closing an probe from 2022 into the GM-owned robotaxi company. The bureau was looking into Cruise vehicles that stopped unexpectedly, including 3 times wherever they were struck from behind.

From the study (included successful afloat below):

Based connected ODI’s investigation of immobilization data, the imaginable information hazard is heavy babelike connected the discourse of the immobilized vehicle’s location, detectability of the conveyance owed to hazard lights automatically engaging, and nary of the immobilization incidents reviewed resulted successful a clang oregon injuries.

ODI besides analyzed hard braking information which included 7,632 hard braking events commanded by the Cruise ADS. These events were determined by definite thresholds, including complaint of deceleration, without respect to the appropriateness of the braking. ODI determined that Cruise vehicles contributed to 10 crashes that were reported nether the Standing General Order 2021-01 (SGO), 4 of which progressive a susceptible roadworthy idiosyncratic and resulted successful injury

As reported by Reuters, Cruise disagreed astir issuing a callback implicit the contented but did truthful with a bundle update applied to Cruise vehicles past period to wrapper this probe up.

The now-closed probe is abstracted from the California incidental past year, where a pedestrian successful San Francisco was struck by 1 of its vehicles and dragged for implicit 20 feet. Investigations into the mishap by aggregate agencies are continuing, and Cruise is inactive banned successful California. Cruise responded to that incidental with another recall.

After the pedestrian incident, Cruise announced successful April that it was resuming fleet investigating without passengers, and it aboriginal installed a caller CEO. In June, GM announced an $850 cardinal concern successful Cruise to screen its operational costs and support the institution afloat portion it works connected getting the cars backmost connected the road.

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