Elon Musk Doesn’t Want Tesla to Have to Do Car-Crash Reporting, and—What Do You Know—the Trump Transition Agrees
Elon Musk spent more than $250 million to help reelect Donald Trump, and he now has a job running the Department of Government Efficiency. Separately, Musk’s Tesla has long wanted federal safety regulators to drop a car-crash reporting requirement, and—what’s that we’re hearing? The Trump transition agrees!
Reuters reports that the president-elect’s transition has recommended killing the reporting rule, claiming the data collection is “excessive.” Of course, what one group of people might call excessive, another might call pretty important in preventing individuals from being killed by autonomous cars.
Per Reuters:
As Reuters notes, nixing the crash-reporting requirement “would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes—more than 1,500—to federal safety regulators under the program.” The Trump transition, Tesla, and Musk did not respond to requests for comment from the outlet.
In an interview with Time magazine published this week, the incoming president was asked if it was a conflict of interest to give Musk “the power to oversee the agencies that regulate his companies.” Trump responded: “I don’t think so…. I think that Elon puts the country long before his company. I mean, he’s in a lot of companies, but he really is, and I’ve seen it. He considers this to be his most important project, and he wanted to do it. And, you know, I think…he’s one of the very few people that would have the credibility to do it, but he puts the country before, and I’ve seen it, before he puts his company.”
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