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Safety advocates fear Tesla will face less accountability for car crashes under Trump


With Tesla CEO Elon Musk backing President-elect Donald Trump, safety advocates fear the incoming administration is poised to scrap a federal crash reporting requirement that Tesla calls unfair.

The documents reveal that about two minutes before the crash, Hunter put his car into what Tesla calls Full Self-Driving (Supervised) mode — its most advanced driver-assistance system, for which drivers typically pay extra. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world's richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help President-elect Donald Trump return to the White House. Trump has tasked Musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy with leading what he calls the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is expected to recommend drastic cuts to the federal workforce and regulations.

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