(Reuters) -The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday it was closing its preliminary evaluation into hard braking and immobilization in autonomous ride-hailing vehicles operated by General Motors’ Cruise unit.
“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 said in a letter.
Cruise still faces investigations by the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission following an accident last October in which one of its robotaxis struck a pedestrian and dragged her 20 feet (six meters).
(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Eileen Soreng)
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