ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

GM Instrument Cluster Settlement

Okay, so imagine that you have a toy car, and you want to know how fast it goes. But you can't just look at the car and know its speed - you need something called an instrument cluster.

Now let's pretend that a company called General Motors (GM) made a bunch of real-life cars, and some of their instrument clusters didn't work correctly. This means that the people driving the cars couldn't see how fast they were going, or how much gas they had left, or other important things like that.

A lot of people were upset about this, because it made their cars unsafe to drive. So they decided to take GM to court and ask for money to fix their broken instrument clusters.

After a long time, GM agreed to pay a big settlement to all the people who had the broken instrument clusters. This means that they will give those people some money so that they can get their cars fixed and be safe on the road again.

So now, the people who had the broken instrument clusters can get them fixed and use their cars again like normal. And GM has to be more careful so that they don't make any more broken instrument clusters in the future.