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Tesla reportedly asked US highway safety officials to redact information about whether driver-assistance software was in use during crashes

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https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-asked-nhtsa-redact-information-autopilot-fsd-use-crashes-report-2023-8

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Aug 23 2023
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    DeaconBlue
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    Is there any kind of "boy who cried wolf" clause in this where the company loses the ability to make this claim after many of these claims are denied? Is there any reason at all for every company...

    "The Vehicle Safety Act explicitly restricts NHTSA's ability to release what the companies label as confidential information. Once any company claims confidentiality, NHTSA is legally obligated to treat it as confidential unless/until NHTSA goes through a legal process to deny the claim."

    Is there any kind of "boy who cried wolf" clause in this where the company loses the ability to make this claim after many of these claims are denied?

    Is there any reason at all for every company to not just scream "confidential" at every crash?

    This seems like a massive bureaucratic nightmare where you make the NHTSA less useful for no real gain to society.

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    1. MIGsalund
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      That's the whole point of regulatory capture. Why else would NHTSA employees bother working for their puny government wages if not for the promise of future well paid industry gigs? If we want...

      That's the whole point of regulatory capture. Why else would NHTSA employees bother working for their puny government wages if not for the promise of future well paid industry gigs?

      If we want actual functioning regulatory agencies we need to both raise wages for those jobs and ban moving from government regulation positions in to private sector jobs within the same or related industries. All of this should also be fully paid for by the industry being regulated, too. The cost of companies having zero compunction toward skirting rules should always be borne by themselves, and not the American taxpayer at large.

      Companies should never be able to direct the government on how to disclose public safety disclosures. Never.

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