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
3
Incident Date
2023-10-02
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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…

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.