Cruise Exec Omitted Pedestrian Dragging In Summary of Self-Driving Car Incident to California DMV, Email Shows
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A senior Cruise executive didn’t mention that one of his company’s self-driving cars dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in a summary sent to the director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles the morning after the October 2 incident, an email obtained by Motherboard shows.
This provides concrete evidence that Cruise initially misled the state regulator about what actually happened during the crash. The California DMV said in its October 24 decision to revoke the self-driving car company's license to operate that Cruise omitted footage of the pedestrian being dragged by the car, which had come to a stop after the person was thrown into its path by a separate collision, in a meeting on October 3. Cruise flatly denied this allegation.