Cruise, the San Francisco self-driving car company, agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $500,000 for hiding information about the October 2023 pedestrian crash.

Autonomous driving company Cruise has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine after it admitted to covering up a crash that happened in San Francisco last year, the United States Department of Justice announced.

Cruise has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine for submitting a false report to federal regulators following an accident over a year ago in which one of the company's self-driving cars pinned and dragged a woman nearly 20 feet at a San Francisco intersection.