Elon Musk spent greater than $250 million to assist reelect Donald Trump, and he now has a job working the Division of Authorities Effectivity. Individually, Musk’s Tesla has lengthy needed federal security regulators to drop a car-crash reporting requirement, and—what’s that we’re listening to? The Trump transition agrees!
Reuters reports that the president-elect’s transition has advisable killing the reporting rule, claiming the info assortment is “extreme.” After all, what one group of individuals would possibly name extreme, one other would possibly name fairly vital in stopping people from being killed by autonomous automobiles.
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As Reuters notes, nixing the crash-reporting requirement “would notably profit Tesla, which has reported a lot of the crashes—greater than 1,500—to federal security regulators underneath this system.” The Trump transition, Tesla, and Musk didn’t reply to requests for remark from the outlet.
In an interview with Time journal printed this week, the incoming president was asked if it was a battle of curiosity to provide Musk “the facility to supervise the businesses that regulate his corporations.” Trump responded: “I don’t suppose so…. I believe that Elon places the nation lengthy earlier than his firm. I imply, he’s in a variety of corporations, however he actually is, and I’ve seen it. He considers this to be his most vital venture, and he needed to do it. And, you recognize, I believe…he’s one of many only a few individuals that might have the credibility to do it, however he places the nation earlier than, and I’ve seen it, earlier than he places his firm.”
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