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Tesla is trying to stop certain self-driving crash data becoming public
The company claims the information is confidential and that disclosing it may benefit competitors.
Tesla has asked a judge to block a request for the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to disclose certain data related to crashes involving vehicles that have self-driving features, as Reuters reports. The company claimed in a filing the information is confidential, and that releasing it publicly would give competitors the ability to analyze the effectiveness of each version of the self-driving tech and potentially figure out the number of crashes that are linked to various systems. That initiative is said to have cut about 10 percent of the NHTSA's staff at the beginning of this year — including about half of a small team that oversees the safety of autonomous vehicles.
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