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Cruise robotaxi dragging incident traced to Collision Detection Subsystem defect
S4 · ~Oct 2023 · General Motors (Cruise) · San Francisco, CA, USA
Record
| Company | General Motors (Cruise) |
| Industry | Other |
| Type(s) | crash |
| Date | ~Oct 2023 (month precision) |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Severity | (serious injury, total loss, or grounding) |
| Scale | not documented |
| Confidence | low |
| Verified flag | Yes - independently re-checked against the cited source |
Summary
A Cruise autonomous vehicle struck and dragged a pedestrian (who had first been hit by a separate hit-and-run driver) about 20 feet in San Francisco; investigation found a software defect in the vehicle's Collision Detection Subsystem prevented an emergency stop, leading to a recall of 950 robotaxis.
Primary source
Publisher: dailycar.co.kr · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| ~Oct 2023 | Cruise robotaxi dragging incident traced to Collision Detection Subsystem defect | dailycar.co.kr | dailycar.co.kr |
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