The Autonomous Automobile Company of General Motors, Cruise, has agreed to pay a settlement of $ 8 million to 12 million dollars to a hospitalized woman after obtaining dragged along the road by an autonomous taxi in San Francisco last year.
The woman, a pedestrian, was struck by a vehicle with a run of flight to the 5th and the streets of the market and thrown on the path of the autonomous car of Cruise, which pinned it below, according to Cruise and the authorities. The car dragged her to about 20 feet as she was trying to withdraw from the road before stopping.
She suffered “traumatic injuries” and was treated on the scene before being hospitalized.
We do not know when the regulations have been reached or the exact amount, familiar sources with the situation told Fortune And Bloomberg. The state of the woman, whose name was not published by the authorities, is unknown, but a representative of the General Hospital of Zuckerberg San Francisco told Fortune that she had been released.
Cruise initially declared that his autonomous car “hummed aggressively to minimize the impact”, but later declared that the vehicle software had made a mistake by registering where he struck the woman. The car tried to stop but continued to drive 7 mph by 20 feet with the woman still under the vehicle.
“The hearts of all Cruise employees continues to be with the pedestrian, and we hope for its continuous recovery,” Cruise said in a statement.
Cruise interrupted its driver -free operations after its autonomous taxi license was suspended by the California engine ministry. The company was also accused of lying to investigators and retaining images of the car accident.
Cruise said this week that he would start testing robotaxis in Arizona with a driver behind the wheel in case a human must take control of the vehicle, according to a press release from the company.
“Security is the determining principle of everything we do and continues to guide our progress towards the resumption of driver -free operations,” according to the press release.
