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

submitted 1 week 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] 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeeeeuuup.

This is certainly going to improve the prospects of assembled in US cars getting exported...

Oh well, fuck it all I guess, burn it all down.

I'm sure Elon will try suing the EU to force them to buy his cars next.

That is how the free market works: When people don't wanna buy what you are selling, threaten to sue them for not volunarily agreeing to purchase your service or product.

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