A robotaxi dragged a pedestrian 20 feet. The company's video didn't show that part.
GM Cruise · 2023
What they did
A Cruise robotaxi in San Francisco struck a pedestrian who had already been hit by a separate human-driven car and thrown into its path, then — while executing an automated pull-over maneuver — dragged her roughly 20 feet at up to 7 mph before stopping.
What happened
In a meeting with California's DMV the next day, Cruise showed video ending at the vehicle's initial hard-braking stop, without disclosing that it had then dragged the pedestrian during the pullover. When the full footage surfaced, the DMV found Cruise had misrepresented its technology's safety and immediately suspended its permit to test and deploy driverless vehicles in California — revoked outright on October 24, 2023 — and Cruise recalled 950 robotaxis.
The so-what
The underlying edge case (a pedestrian already down, out of a normal sensor expectation) is a genuinely hard autonomy problem — but the regulator didn't revoke the permit over the crash itself, it revoked it over the incomplete video. In a safety-critical domain, what you don't disclose can cost you the entire license, independent of the technical failure.