In a surprising move, President Trump’s Department of Transportation has decided to maintain the principle of the Biden era, which requires carmakers and tech companies to report accidents, including complete or partial autonomous vehicles. But they are making some changes that have a huge impact on a company.
In 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued the Standing General Order (SGO) demanding car makers and tech companies to report completely autonomous vehicles, as well as the accidents included in millions of vehicles on the road today. Under the SGO, companies need to document the collision when the driving system was used within 30 seconds and reports these incidents to the government.
Last year, Reuters It is reported that Trump’s transfer team is considering axing the crisis -reporting principle, especially in favor of Tesla. The company’s auto -pilot and itself -powered features, which are considered to be Level 2 Driver Assist System that need to pay attention to drivers, are both under this principle. And since it was implemented, Tesla has reported more than 1,500 cracks to the federal government, Reuters Says An analysis of the accident data shows that 45 out of 45 Tesla under the SGO are calculated.
The administration is maintaining the rule, but not without any significant changes. USDOT announced On Thursday, a modified automated vehicle framework that “maintains” SGO, but with smooth reporting, “unnecessary and removes duplicate requirements.” According to USDOT Secretary Sean Duffy, the new framework aims to “slash red tapes and move us closer to the same national standard that promotes innovation and prefers safety.”
Under the previous SGO, if the Level 2 Driver’s Assist System or above has an accident in a vehicle that did not include the weak users of the death or the road (who have been pedestrians or cyclists), it has to be reported within 5 days if the vehicle had to be removed, or the airbagyan.
The administration is maintaining the rule, but not without any significant changes.
Now, under the revised principle, the accident should be reported only if the vehicle has a level 4 automatic driving system, such as vimo. Level 2 has been exempted from reporting now that the casualties or weak road users do not include in the vehicle accidents. And who benefits this change?
“It has a special impact on a special company, Tesla, because auto pilots and (full self -driving) are just L2 systems, not automatic driving systems.” “Tesla has long complained about the fact that the majority of the SGOs are from their vehicles and will eliminate all reports that do not include deaths or not to kill a weak road user.”
In his report from December, Reuters Referring to a number of sources near Tesla, the company “despises” the standing general order, CEO Elon Musk concluded that the administration would change to get rid of it. During the campaign, Musk was the most vicious protector of Trump, spent at least $ 277 million to back his candidate. And it operates the government’s performance with the government’s performance, eliminating humanitarian aid and terrorizing federal workers.
It is possible that the final result will be a little bad press for the nearby cracks around Tesla (which is definitely a fair part of it), and even less transparency for the public in which companies’ vehicles are more reliable, and which are not.
The department also extended automatic vehicles to the Exception Program (AVP), which was previously open to imported vehicles, so that now domestic -made cars. Abyolsmid has speculated that the program was mostly used to import low -speed autonomous shuttle vehicles, such as a French company, developed by Naviya, which has been used in numerous pilot programs nationwide.
Surprisingly, USDOT officials are compiling these changes as AV operators enable operators to operate more and more half of the government without maximum needs of the government.
NHTSA Chief Councilor Peter Samsuzer said in a statement, “By smooth the SGO for crash reports and expanding the current program of discounts to domestic vehicles, we are enabled AV manufacturers to grow faster and spend less time on unnecessary processes, while still moving forward.” “These are the first steps to make the United States a more welcome environment for the next generation of automotive technology.”
