NHTSA opens investigation into Cruise hard-braking and immobilization incidents
S2 · ~Dec 2022 · Cruise
Record
| Company | Cruise |
| Industry | Autonomous vehicles and trucking |
| Product | AV (Bolt) |
| Robot type | Robotaxi |
| Type(s) | malfunction |
| Date | ~Dec 2022 (month precision) |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | (minor injury or single-unit damage) |
| Scale | fleet-wide investigation |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verified flag | Cited source on file; not independently re-verified |
Summary
NHTSA opened preliminary investigation PE22-014 into reports of Cruise vehicles inappropriately hard braking or becoming immobilized/stalled in the roadway, creating rear-collision risk.
Primary source
Wikipedia (citing NHTSA, Dec 12, 2022)
Publisher: Wikipedia (citing NHTSA, Dec 12, 2022) · Retrieved: 2026-10-30
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| ~Dec 2022 | NHTSA opens investigation into Cruise hard-braking and immobilization incidents | Wikipedia (citing NHTSA, Dec 12, 2022) | Wikipedia |
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