This is a set of notes on the Quinn Emanuel report on Cruise’s handling of the 2023-10-02 accident where a Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) hit a pedestrian, stopped, and then started moving again with the pedestrian stuck under the bottom of the AV, dragging the pedestrian 20 feet. After seeing some comments about this report, I read five stories on this report and then skimmed the report and my feeling is that the authors of four of the stories probably didn’t read the report, and that people who were commenting had generally read stories by journalists who did not appear to read the source material, so the comments were generally way off base. As we previously discussed, it’s common for summaries to be wildly wrong, even when they’re summarizing a short paper that’s easily read by laypeople, so of course summaries of a 200-page report are likely to be misleading at best.