Officials are fired at traffic safety agency investigating Elon Musk's company
self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles played a role in the death of a pedestrian, laid off 4% of its employees last week, a Transportation Department spokesperson said Saturday.
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The traffic safety agency did not say whether any of its fired employees were involved in investigations of Tesla, whose CEO, Elon Musk, is leading a team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency established by President Donald Trump.
The efficiency department has been forcing layoffs at numerous government agencies as part of an effort to reshape the federal bureaucracy. Musk has retained control of Tesla while spending much of his time in Washington.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has three active investigations of Tesla, according to agency documents, including one examining whether the company's autonomous driving software is prone to failure when visibility is poor.
The layoffs at the traffic safety agency, which has less than 1,000 employees, were reported earlier by The Washington Post. Even after the layoffs, the agency continues to employ more people than at the beginning of the Biden administration, the agency said in a statement.
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