The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched a formal safety probe into the General Motors CoGM robotaxi unit Cruise LLC made autonomous driving system in vehicles.
The auto safety regulator received notices of incidents of self-driving Cruise vehicles engaging in inappropriately hard braking or becoming immobilized, Reuters reports.
The regulator’s preliminary evaluation covered 242 Cruise autonomous vehicles and is the first step before it could seek a recall.
The investigation followed reports of three crashes in which Cruise vehicles were struck from behind by other cars after the autonomous vehicles braked quickly.
Cruise offered limited service in San Francisco with a small fleet of Chevrolet Bolt EVs.
The report added that Cruise COO Gil West shared plans in November to enter a “large number of markets” and scale operations up to “thousands of vehicles” in 2023.
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