I remember when the first articles about this accident came out I immediately matched one of the photos with the location on Google Maps and thought "huh, that's pretty far away from the intersection".

Meanwhile Cruise has the video of the moment of collision and doesn't put two and two together until hours and hours later? Like car stopped on pedestrian being 20 feet away from initial collision should make most people think bad news bears pretty fast, but according to that report they were too hyper focused on blaming the other other driver to think that maybe just maybe they did anything wrong.

And then deliberately omitted this information from the media once they did learn it, letting their older innacurate press release stand (a.k.a. lying).

And then oopsied showing a bunch of regulators the most important part, or even mentioning it, y'know using words. They were too busy trying to figure out how to present stuff to put them in the best possible light. a.k.a either actively lying (absolutely, but good luck proving this) or gross self-serving incompetence, probably both.

It sounds like their incidence response was getting a few hundred people typing furiously in a chatroom about how to talk to regulators rather than some orderly process to actually figure stuff out.

The one person who figured things out first was on the scene, but apparently they never bothered asking him.