Trump wants to stop Tesla having to report its crashes with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving
The Trump transition team is reportedly looking to kill the requirement for Tesla to have to report its crashes involving Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features.
Reuters could not determine what role, if any, Musk may have played in crafting the transition team recommendations or the likelihood that the administration would enact them. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing most major automakers except Tesla, has also criticized the requirement as burdensome.
NHTSA has a program that requires automakers to report crashes involving advanced driver assist systems (ADAS).
Reuters obtained a document that shows the Trump transition team is looking to kill this program.
The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government's ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.
Musk spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping Trump get elected president in Nov. Removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes – more than 1,500 from more than 2,7000 – to federal safety regulators under the program. Tesla has been targeted in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigations, including three stemming from the data.
A Reuters analysis of the NHTSA crash data shows Tesla accounted for 40 out of 45 fatal crashes reported to NHTSA through Oct. 15.
NHTSA said that this reporting requirement is "crucial" to making sure ADAS systems are safe. It was also what led to the recall that forced Tesla to add more alerts to its Autopilot system to prevent misuses.
Elon Musk has often complained about NHTSA's treatment of Tesla and the recalls, which are often just over-the-air software updates, that the agency forced on the automaker.
Electrek's Take
The removal of the requirement stands to benefit Tesla most given it forms the vast majority of the crashes and fatal crashes.
America; where corruption is done in broad daylight for everyone to see.
To be fair, Reuters said that it couldn't link Musk directly to this policy change, but who are we kidding?
I know Tesla doesn't like it, but NHTSA's job is not to please Tesla. It's to protect road users and passengers, and reporting crashes involving a rapidly evolving technology sounds sensible if that's your mission.
It's wild that the richest man in the world, who owns large stakes in several companies doing direct business with the US government or directly influenced by government policies, is literally on the President's transition team.
And the funniest part is that they do things like this and claim that it is for the American people and not for their own pockets.
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MonkeyGee : There are no crashes with FSD. it's all human error. Human turned it on.
bullrider_21 OP : The removal of the requirement stands to benefit Tesla most given it forms the vast majority of the crashes and fatal crashes.
溫馨提示 : Trump won’t say anything about Tesla until now Lol after Jan 20 idk
bullrider_21 OP MonkeyGee : That shows how unreliable and unsafe FSD is.
105232125 : Oh![open_mouth 😮](https://static.moomoo.com/nnq/emoji/static/image/img-apple-64/1f62e.png)
MonkeyGee bullrider_21 OP : I know. The only solution is buy Xpeng.
bullrider_21 OP : With the removal, Tesla won't look bad with its poor fatality record. It may get its robotaxi license. But if it gets into an accident, its license may be suspended for months like GM's Cruise.
Lnova : no, no, stopping reporting of this should be illegal. That would be depriving people of data that they could have used to factor into their decision on whether or not to trust the FSD with their lives. I think this would result in lawsuit/s, investigation/s, wrongful death suits. Thats crazy
Lnova bullrider_21 OP : Tesla would need to go to jail for that
Lnova Lnova : Trump transition team and Tesla both. Would need to go to jail. If they hid the crash data. Cannot do that
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