Elon Musk spent $250 million to elect Trump in 2024.
It was a business investment from which he expects to reap huge financial profits, not a campaign donation motivated by personal friendship or political beliefs.
Besides tax cuts, USA Today reported on Sunday, December 15, 2024, that Trump’s transition team wants to scuttle a requirement to report self-driving car crashes to federal traffic safety regulators (read story here).
USA Today says that could “cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.”
In 2024 through mid-October, 40 of those 45 reported crashes involved Teslas, made by Musk’s company. The transition team called the reporting requirement “excessive” data collection. To anyone else, it looks like hiding evidence, and whitewashing Musk’s car company’s PR troubles.
