Of Course He Will

Trump is looking to kill a rule that requires car manufacturers to report fatal crashes. 

Rather unsurprisingly, this means that Tesla would no longer have to report this data which shows it to be the most dangerous make of car in America:

Elon Musk’s car company Tesla doesn’t have the greatest track record when it comes to road safety. In fact, a recent analysis of federal data came to the conclusion that Musk’s car company ranks highest in fatal crash incidents. We have this information because of a federal reporting rule that was instituted by the Biden administration several years ago, the purpose of which was to improve transparency surrounding the deployment of new autonomous technologies on America’s roadways. Unfortunately, now that Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, it seems increasingly likely that he will nix that rule, which would be a big win for Trump’s new political ally, Musk.

Reuters reported Friday that members of Trump’s transition team are recommending that he eliminate the car crash reporting requirement. Reuters is basing its reporting on a document that showed that the recommendation to kill the crash reporting rule came from “a transition team tasked with producing a 100-day strategy for automotive policy.” The group called the measure a mandate for “excessive” data collection. Getting rid of the reporting requirement has been a goal of the company for some time. Reuters reports:

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Previous reports have found that Tesla ranks high when it comes to their involvement in fatal incidents. As previously stated, a recent analysis of NHTSA data arrived at the conclusion that Tesla has the highest rate of involvement in fatal accidents of any major brand. A 2022 report released by the NHTSA itself claimed that, in the preceding year, Teslas had accounted for some 70 percent of the car crashes that involved driver-assist systems. This year, the agency published another report that found that Tesla’s Autopilot function had a “critical safety gap” that could be linked to hundreds of crashes. A previous analysis of federal data published by the Washington Post showed that Tesla’s Autopilot function had been involved in 17 fatalities and as many as 736 crashes since 2019.

So Trump wants to do a solid for the Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™, who has, by lying consistently for over a decade about the capabilities of its Autopilot and Full Self Driving capabilities, which has resulted in thousands of drivers driving unsafely.

But Elon's rich, and he supported Trump, so he gets  what he wants.