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Cruise

Products: Robotaxi. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 40.5/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 97th percentile of 89 av trucking companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains ten entries spanning December 2022 through December 2024, covering hard-braking and immobilization investigations, a pedestrian-dragging injury, multiple regulatory fines and permit suspensions, a nationwide operations halt, a software recall, a false-report admission, and the eventual wind-down of the standalone robotaxi business. The dominant pattern is regulatory: three entries are explicitly regulatory actions (NHTSA fines, DMV suspension) layered on top of injury, recall, and shutdown events, indicating sustained enforcement scrutiny following the pedestrian-dragging incident rather than a single isolated failure. Severity is concentrated at the high end, with five of ten entries coded severity 3 or 4, and the trajectory runs from an initial investigation through escalating regulatory and injury events to eventual business termination. Cruise's index of 41.1 corresponds to the 96.6th percentile within av-trucking, an elevated band reflecting both the volume and severity of the record relative to category peers. The record as a whole documents a multi-year pattern of recurring safety, disclosure, and regulatory events culminating in the shutdown of the robotaxi operation.

Entries by year and severity

362022 S2: 11222023 S2: 12023 S3: 22023 S4: 36232024 S3: 22024 S4: 1324
S1S2S3S4S5

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Incident log (10 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S312/2024 shutdown GM ends Cruise as a standalone robotaxi business · company-wide program wind-down Wikipedia
S411/14
2024
injury San Francisco, CA, USACruise admits false report after robotaxi dragged pedestrian in San Francisco NBC Bay Area
S309/30
2024
regulatory NHTSA fines Cruise $1.5 million for failing to disclose pedestrian injury severity · $1.5 million civil penalty The Verge
S311/08
2023
recall Cruise recalls 950 robotaxis via software update after pedestrian dragging · 950 vehicles The Verge
S410/24
2023
regulatory CA, USACalifornia DMV suspends Cruise driverless permit statewide · entire California fleet grounded CNBC
S410/02
2023 · ~21:30 PT
injury San Francisco, CA, USACruise robotaxi drags pedestrian 20 feet after hit-and-run in San Francisco · 1 pedestrian, serious injury San Francisco Chronicle
S310/2023 regulatory San Francisco, CA, USACruise fined $112,500 for delaying report on San Francisco robotaxi dragging incident that severely injured woman ABC7 Bay Area
S410/2023 shutdown Cruise halts driverless operations nationwide · fleet-wide WSJ/CNBC
S208/2023
~22:00 PT
crash San Francisco, CA, USASan Francisco firetruck collides with responding Cruise vehicle · 1 vehicle collision Wikipedia
S212/2022 malfunction NHTSA opens investigation into Cruise hard-braking and immobilization incidents · fleet-wide investigation Wikipedia

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