General Motors' self-driving car unit, Cruise, admitted on Thursday to submitting a false report to influence a federal investigation and will pay a $500,000 criminal fine as part of a deferred prosecution agreement,

Cruise has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine for submitting a false report to federal regulators following an accident over a year ago in which one of the company's self-driving cars pinned and dragged a woman nearly 20 feet at a San Francisco intersection.