Cruise incidents
The Machine Record lists 11 verified incidents involving Cruise robots and vehicles since 2022: 8 where a person was hurt, 1 of them fatal, 4 that reached a regulator, recall, fine, lawsuit or settlement. Counted on 2026-10-03; every case links to its sources.
- Cases
- 11
- Someone hurt
- 8
- Fatal
- 1
- Escalated
- 4
- Period
- 2022-06 to 2024-08
By year
- 2022█ 1
- 2023████████████ 9
- 2024█ 1
By outcome
- serious injury4
- minor injury3
- property damage2
- fatality1
- no harm1
By type of event
- collision4
- recall3
- pedestrian struck and dragged by autonomous vehicle1
- malfunction1
- fine1
- other1
By kind of machine
- Autonomous vehicle11
Counts measure what was reported in English and cleared verification, not how many events took place. Fleet sizes are not public, so none of this is a rate. Rules are on the methodology page; the numbers are CC BY 4.0, cite this page. CSV, JSON and an API are on the data page.
Cases
The 11 cases behind the number
Newest first. Each one links to its timeline and to the sources it rests on.
- 2024-08-22GM's Cruise recalls nearly 1,200 robotaxis to close a US government probe stemming from a crash.Recall
- 2023-10-02A Cruise autonomous vehicle struck and dragged a pedestrian approximately 20 feet on October 2, 2023, after she was first hit by a human-driven car.Report
- 2023-10-02A Cruise robotaxi ran over a pedestrian who had been pushed into its path by a hit-and-run vehicle and pinned the person beneath its tire in San Francisco, leading to California regulators revoking Cruise's robotaxi permits.Report
- 2023-10-01Cruise fined $500,000 by DOJ for submitting a false report omitting that its robotaxi dragged a pedestrian in October 2023 in San Francisco.Fine
- 2023-08-17A Cruise self-driving robotaxi was struck by a San Francisco Fire Department truck en route to an emergency at the intersection of Polk and Turk Streets in the Tenderloin district, resulting in one passenger being transported to a hospital with non-severe injuries.Regulator action
- 2023-08-14Two Cruise autonomous vehicles stopped in traffic lanes on August 14, 2023 in San Francisco, allegedly delaying an ambulance transporting a pedestrian with life-threatening injuries who later died at the hospital, though Cruise disputes that its vehicles impeded the ambulance.Report
- 2023-08-07A driverless Cruise autonomous vehicle was struck by a semi-truck performing a left turn from the right lane near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, sustaining damage to its passenger-side mirror, a camera, and a tire, with no passengers in the vehicle and no injuries reported.Report
- 2023-06-15An unmanned Cruise autonomous vehicle struck a woman's off-leash Labrador in a crosswalk at Clay and Baker streets in San Francisco; the dog was reported uninjured.Report
- 2023-04-10A Cruise autonomous robotaxi rear-ended a city bus at approximately 10 MPH in San Francisco due to a software error in predicting the movement of articulated vehicles, prompting a voluntary recall of 300 AVs.Report
- 2023-03-24A driverless Cruise robotaxi with no passengers rear-ended a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Muni bus, causing modest damage to the bus and more severe damage to the robotaxi's front bumper, with no injuries reported.Follow-up
- 2022-06-03A Cruise driverless robotaxi braked harshly while making an unprotected left turn and was struck by an oncoming speeding vehicle in San Francisco, resulting in minor injuries.Recall
Questions
What people ask about these numbers
- How many incidents involving Cruise robots and vehicles are on record?
- The Machine Record lists 11 verified incidents involving Cruise robots and vehicles since 2022: 8 where a person was hurt, 1 of them fatal, 4 that reached a regulator, recall, fine, lawsuit or settlement. Counted on 2026-10-03; every case links to its sources.
- What counts as an incident here?
- A case enters the register only when two independent published sources or one regulator record (NHTSA, CPSC, OSHA, EU Safety Gate) describe the same event with a date and an outcome. Demonstrations that went wrong, recalls, investigations, injuries and deaths all count; marketing and speculation do not.
- Is this every incident that happened?
- No. It is every incident reported in English that cleared verification. Fleet sizes are not public, so none of these numbers is a rate, and a company with more cases is often a company with more vehicles on the road and more press coverage.
- Can I reuse these numbers?
- Yes. Case metadata is CC BY 4.0: cite The Machine Record with a link. CSV and JSON exports and an API are on the data page.
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