United States automobile safety and security regulatory authority shuts probe right into GM’s Cruise robotaxis

(Reuters) -The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration claimed on Thursday it was shutting its initial assessment right into difficult stopping and immobilization in self-governing ride-hailing lorries run by General Motors’ Cruise device.

“In view of the recall action taken by Cruise and ODI’s analysis of the available data, including data presented by Cruise demonstrating a reduced occurrence of hard braking incidents after the software updates, ODI (Office of Defects Investigation) is closing this Preliminary Evaluation,” NHTSA claimed in a letter.

Cruise still encounters examinations by the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission complying with a mishap last October in which among its robotaxis struck a pedestrian and dragged her 20 feet (6 meters).

(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Eileen Soreng)