Musk has accused the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of holding back progress on self-driving technology with its investigations and recalls.

Cuts to the new autonomous vehicle team will also reduce oversight on the industry as a whole, comprised of massive tech companies and their self-driving subsidiaries like Alphabet-owned Waymo , and Amazon's Zoox autonomous taxis. Both have also faced regulatory oversight from the NHTSA in recent years ranging from crash investigations to recalls.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lost 4% of its staff, the agency said Monday, as part of ongoing efforts to cull probationary workers across federal agencies. The safety agency has three ongoing investigations into electric automaker Tesla,

Musk's cost-cutting push is reshaping federal oversight--raising fears of weakened regulations and a major shake-up in self-driving tech.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently laid off 4% of its staff as part of government cuts. Despite this, the agency remains larger than before President Joe Biden's tenure. Investigations into Tesla,

The recent 5-star safety rating from the NHTSA has thrilled Elon Musk to the extent that he recalled he also manages a car company. Following the announcement of the results, Musk stated, “Cybertruck is apocalypse-level safe.