A Cruise report finds its top executives' adversarial approach toward regulators led to a cascade of events that ended with a suspension of its autonomous fleet
and gruesome. William Gavin / The Messenger : GM's Cruise Targeted by Justice Department, SEC Inquiries Into Driverless Car Collision Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Cruise wasn't hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : Cruise hired a law firm to assess how they handled the October 2023 incident where one of their cars dragged a pedestrian. — The conclusion is execs being confrontational and hiding information from regulators caused the service to get grounded. — An important lesson on how being hostile to regulators can backfire on a company. … Bluesky: Roberto Baldwin / @strngwys.bsky.social : Color me surprised [embedded post] LinkedIn: Matthew Wansley : In the NYT today arguing that the Cal DMV probably wouldn't have suspended Cruise's driverless permit if Cruise had been more forthcoming after the crash. … Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Cruise Says Hostility Toward Regulators Led To Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars