General Motors' Cruise to Pay $500K Penalty Over False Crash Report

General Motors Company’s (GM) autonomous vehicle division, Cruise, has acknowledged submitting a false report in an attempt to sway a federal investigation into a safety incident last year. Per the Department of Justice (DOJ), the company will pay a $500,000 criminal fine under a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve the matter.This is just one of several penalties Cruise has faced at both state and federal levels for failing to disclose critical details about an October incident where one of its robota ...