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Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The TL;DR in one quote:

Job cuts at the US traffic safety regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks, hampering oversight of technology on which the world’s richest man has staked the future of Tesla.

An interesting quote from a Tesla manager:

“Letting Doge fire those in the autonomous division is sheer madness—we should be lobbying to add people to NHTSA,” said one manager at Tesla. They “need to be developing a national framework for AVs, otherwise Tesla doesn’t have a prayer for scale in FSD or robotaxis.”

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In case you need another reason not to buy a Tesla.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They say regulations are written in blood.

Elaine Chao is a conservative government official who is famous for not enforcing safety rules or following up on safety complaints and may have violated ethics laws while Secretary of Transportation under Trump’s first regime. While in that role, she rubber stamped a sketchy driver control system implemented by Tesla that later helped kill her own sister (in addition to drunk driving).

Can the lightning bolt of consequences strike twice?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

sheer madness

I would expect nothing less! We elected a mad king on purpose. Thus, I fully expect the finest anti-intellectualism Elon can buy.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Cars aren't safe anymore by standards and tests, they are now safe by declaration.

And Us American declarations are the best declarations in the whole world.

Therefore all the world is going to trust in Us American cars, finally.

And they are so much safer now than European cars, because Us American declarations are so superior to European safety standards and tests.