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Trump’s team reportedly wants to end NHTSA reporting requirement for car crashes involving automated systems

A team in charge of making a strategy for the incoming administration recommends it drop an order issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2021.

In a document seen by Reuters, the transition team in charge of making a 100-day strategy for automotive policy reportedly recommended that the incoming administration repeal the requirement, saying it calls for “excessive” data collection. But, according to University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith, who spoke to Reuters, Tesla has more cars on the road with advanced driver assistance technology and collects more real-time crash data than other companies, which could make for a disproportionate number of incidents reported. Meta's letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta comes a few weeks after Elon Musk filed an injunction seeking to block OpenAI's switch to a for-profit.

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