Cruise’s not-so-great week isn’t getting better, Europe just recorded the lowest new car sales in June in more than a quarter of a century, and Tesla wants a U.S. District Court in Texas to tell the employees suing it to go take a walk. All that and more in this TGIF edition of The Morning Shift for July 15, 2022.

1st Gear: Drama at Cruise

Last week, General Motors’ autonomous taxi unit Cruise gained attention for all the wrong reasons when a California DMV report surfaced, detailing that one of its vehicles was involved in an accident with a Toyota Prius at an intersection in San Francisco on June 3. That immediately sparked an NHTSA investigation.

This past Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reports that an individual claiming to be a Cruise employee wrote a letter to the California Public Utilities Commission dated May 19, expressing concern over the company’s handling of safety issues. From the article:

The Journal hasn’t been able to independently verify the employment status of the letter’s author or the allegations raised by this person. Requests for comment sent to the email address listed on the letter weren’t returned.

In the letter, the person describes himself as a father and a Cruise employee for a number of years and asks that his comments remain private.

The letter also raises concerns about Cruise’s internal safety-reporting system, with the self-described employee citing one incident in which he filed a complaint that hadn’t been processed for six...

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