San Francisco robotaxi company Cruise’s long saga over its car’s 2023 dragging of a knocked-over pedestrian has finally reached an end, with the company admitting to criminal behavior and agreeing to pay a $500,

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.

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.