alt Hacker NewsCruise was entirely shut down because of an incident that didnt even result in a death. Thats way worse than what people tend to get
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An incident, by the way, triggered by a human driver hitting a pedestrian and knocking them into Cruise's path.
That driver was never found. It's not clear what efforts, if any, were made to find them. After all the Cruise is covered in cameras.
It wasn't "because of an incident", it was because they were required to submit a report about that (or any other) incident, did so, and then the security footage proved that they straight up lied in the report about that particular incident.
If they just told the truth, they wouldn't lose their licence, but they couldn't even oblige by this piss-poor regulatory action in which they were required to do nothing but self-report any incident.
IIRC Cruise got into the most trouble not because of the accident itself, but because it tried to hide evidence from and deceive regulators.