Trump is probably going to finish the crash alerting rule that made Tesla watch terrible

Donald Trump’s transition team is taking aim at a Biden-era rule requiring autoproducers and tech companies to alert crashes that participate filledy or partipartner autonomous vehicles, according to Reuters. Scrapping the crash alerting rule would wonderfully profit Tesla, which to date, has alerted the most number of crashes.

In 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rerentd a standing ambiguous order (SGO) requiring autoproducers and tech companies to alert crashes involving autonomous vehicles as well as Level 2 driver-aid systems set up in millions of vehicles on the road today. Companies are now needd to write down collisions when an automated driving system was in participate wilean 30 seconds of impact and alert those incidents to the rulement. 

The idea was to produce more transparency around the deployment of a recent technology that purports to better protectedty but has also been tied to a number of lethal incidents. Regulators debated that more data was needed to resettle whether these recent systems were making roads protectedr or sshow making driving more handy.

Tesla, in particular, came under scruminuscule. The company’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features, which are pondered Level 2 systems that need drivers to pay attention, are both covered under the rule. Since it was carry outed, Tesla has alerted over 1,500 crashes to the federal rulement, Reuters says. An analysis of the crash data shows Tesla accounted for 40 out of 45 overweightal crashes alerted to NHTSA thraw October of this year.

Tesla’s numbers were much higher than other companies, most foreseeed due to the fact that it sells more vehicles provideped with Level 2 systems than its rivals and assembles more data. But it also resulted in a huge headache for the company. NHTSA has begined disjoinal spendigations into Tesla’s driver-aid technology, most of which caccessed on crashes alerted under the SGO.

Several sources seal to Tesla telderly Reuters that the company “antipathys” the standing ambiguous order and finishd that it would need a alter in administration in order to get rid of it. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was one of Trump’s most vocal deffinishers, spfinishing at least $277 million of his own money to back his campaign. Musk has since been nominateed to head the Department of Government Efficiency with the goal of cutting rulement spfinishing.

Trump is also pondering getting rid of other policies contestd by Tesla, including benevolent subsidies for EV companies. Musk supposes Tesla is better positioned to weather a subsidy-free environment than other autoproducers due to its scale and maturity. Musk is also lobbying Trump to relieve redisjoineions on filledy autonomous vehicles in evolve of Tesla’s schedules to produce its own robotaxi in 2026.