Elon Musk's Department Department's efficiency firing about half a small government team that controls autonomous vehicles, the Washington Post reported.
Firing are part of a broader 10% reduction in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as a result of the firing of probationary workers and buyout offers, the post reported, citing anonymous resources.
Preceded the firing of Tesla's planned Launching Robotaxi in Austin later this year.
NHTSA has been investigating Tesla several times because of accidents that occur while autopilotThe advanced Tesla driver's help driver, is engaged. Some of Tesla's agency probes are still open. In October, the NHTSA opened a New investigation In software called Tesla called “full self-driving (supervised)” after four crashes in low visibility situations were reported, one resulting in the death of a pedestrian.
Tesla's FSD is said to be an advanced driver aid system that can do automatic driving in urban and highway environments. Musk's goal is to improve the camera-based software up to this summer autonomy, a goal he has said has been around the corner for many years.
In addition to firing people working on testing dummies crashing or helping states to gain safety funds, Doge removed three of about seven employees at a new office dedicated to administering automatic vehicles , Post report.
The post noted its resources saying they believe that these cuts will affect the federal government's ability to understand the case of safety behind Tesla's vehicles.
Other companies will also be affected by the NHTSA approach to regulation, including Alphabet's Waymo and Amazon's Zoox. Both companies face themselves investigation For Safety incidents In relation to their autonomous driving software.
