Incident 726: A Self-Driving Cruise Robot Taxi Reportedly Struck and Dragged a Pedestrian 20 Feet

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Description: Cruise has settled for between $8 million and $12 million with a pedestrian dragged by one of its autonomous vehicles in October 2023. The incident, where the pedestrian was initially hit by a human-driven car and then dragged 20 feet by the Cruise vehicle, led to the suspension of Cruise's operations and increased regulatory scrutiny.

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Alleged: Cruise developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Unnamed pedestrian.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
726
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2023-10-02
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Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

7.3. Lack of capability or robustness

Risk Domain

  1. AI system safety, failures, and limitations

Entity

AI

Timing

Post-deployment

Intent

Unintentional

US agency, California gathering details of accident involving robot taxi and pedestrian
reuters.com · 2023

WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - U.S. and California officials said on Tuesday they are in discussions with General Motors' (GM.N), opens new tab self-driving unit Cruise about an accident in San Francisco involving a pedestrian hit by a vehic…

GM-owned Cruise reached a more than $8M settlement with pedestrian who was dragged by robo taxi
fortune.com · 2024
Jessica Mathews post-incident response

Cruise, the self-driving robo taxi company owned by General Motors, reached a settlement with the pedestrian who was dragged by one of its vehicles last fall, according to someone with knowledge of the matter and independently verified by F…

Cruise settles with person dragged under one of its robotaxis
washingtonpost.com · 2024
Gerrit De Vynck post-incident response

SAN FRANCISCO --- General Motors-owned self-driving car company Cruise reached a multimillion-dollar settlement this week with the pedestrian that was dragged by one of its cars in October.

Fortune first reported the settlement, which The W…

Woman dragged by Cruise robotaxi gets over $8M settlement: Report
sfstandard.com · 2024
Joe Burn post-incident response

Robotaxi company Cruise has paid out between $8 million and $12 million to a woman who was dragged 20 feet by one of its autonomous vehicles in downtown San Francisco last fall, according to Fortune.

California Department of Motor Vehicles …

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