(Reuters) – California regulators said on Thursday they were imposing the maximum possible penalty on General Motors’ (NYSE:) cruise unit for failing to quickly provide the commission with full information about an accident involving one of its self-driving cars last year. year.
Cruz did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
Cruise, along with other self-driving car companies such as Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:) Waymo and Amazon’s (NASDAQ:) Zoox, have come under regulatory scrutiny over safety concerns due to numerous accidents involving their vehicles .
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Cruz will pay the maximum fine allowed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), totaling $112,500, which equates to a $7,500 fine for each of the 15 days during which Cruz withheld information about the incident, the regulator said.
Cruise will also provide “collision reports” to the CPUC and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) about collisions that occurred in California.
CONTEXT
The CPUC’s decision comes months after Cruz proposed allowing the regulator to investigate delays in releasing details of the pedestrian crash.
On October 2, a pedestrian was hit by another car in San Francisco and then hit a second time by a Cruise robotaxi.
Cruise’s permit to operate in California was suspended and NHTSA issued a recall of its vehicles following the incident.
Cruise resumed its U.S. operations in April with a small fleet of human-operated vehicles in Phoenix, Arizona, but Cruise’s authority to provide passenger services on its autonomous vehicles remains suspended, the CPUC said Thursday.