President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is apparently seeking to 'liberalize' regulations by repealing crash reporting rules opposed by Tesla and other self-driving technology developers.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation has enacted a '
Exclusive: Trump team wants to scrap car-crash reporting rule that Tesla opposes | Reuters
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NHTSA's 'Standing General Order' is an order to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance technology and autonomous driving technology, and requires automakers to report accidents to NHTSA if these technologies are activated at the time of a collision accident. Since the start of the rule in 2021, NHTSA has collected data on at least 2,700 collision accidents, of which Tesla accounts for approximately 1,500.
Accidents involving Tesla vehicles investigated by NHTSA under this rule include a collision between a Tesla Model S and a fire truck that occurred in February 2023. In this accident, a Model S collided with a fire truck that had stopped on the highway to protect people responding to the accident. As a result, the driver of the collided passenger vehicle was killed, and the passenger and four firefighters were seriously or slightly injured.
Tesla car crashes into fire engine on highway, driver dies - GIGAZINE
Tesla has criticized the rule, saying, 'By reporting real-time accident data to NHTSA that other automakers do not collect, Tesla appears to be responsible for many of the huge number of accidents involving advanced driver assistance technology and autonomous driving technology,' and 'NHTSA is presenting data in a way that misleads consumers about Tesla's safety.' The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, an auto industry group, also said, 'The requirement is a significant burden.'
According to the people, who declined to be named, Tesla executives had discussed with Musk in recent years the need to push for the end of the accident reporting requirement, but ultimately concluded that a change in administration would be needed to remove the requirement, as officials in President Joe Biden's administration were keen to keep the rule in place.
And if Trump wins the US presidential election in November 2024, his transition team has recommended to Trump that the NHTSA abolish the requirement to report accidents. Reuters, an overseas media outlet, said, 'Abolishing the requirement to report accidents would be a huge benefit to Tesla.' It has been reported that Musk will play a major role in the next Trump administration, including being appointed head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but Reuters said, 'We were unable to determine what role Musk played in the policy to abolish the requirement to report accidents.'
In addition, the transition team is calling for the establishment of basic regulations to 'liberalize' regulations on cars equipped with self-driving technology and promote the development of the industry. At Tesla's earnings briefing in October 2024, Musk said, 'The regulations surrounding self-driving cars to date have varied from state to state and have been incredibly painful,' and called for the establishment of a clear approval process led by the federal government, revealing that he will use his position as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, which Trump has promised Musk, to work on regulatory changes.
Trump's transition team, Musk, and Tesla have not commented on the reports.
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