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Proposing weaker fuel‑economy standards that align with EPA’s softer emissions approach
The EPA isn't killing Biden's vehicle pollution rules outright. It plans to keep looser 2026 standards in place for two extra model years instead of enforcing tougher limits on smog-forming pollution starting in 2027.
Updated 5 days ago
Issuing revised CAFE standards for 2022–2031
On December 3, 2025, President Trump unveiled an NHTSA proposal to slash Biden-era CAFE standards, cutting the 2031 target from about 50.4 mpg to roughly 34.5 mpg. The rule also slows annual increases to 0.25–0.5% from 2% and bans credit trading after 2028, which especially hurts EV-focused companies that sell credits to gasoline-heavy manufacturers.
Updated 6 days ago
Primary agency tracking and regulating vehicle safety
An estimated 36,640 people died on American roads in 2025—the fewest since 2019 and a 6.7 percent drop from the year before. The death rate fell to 1.10 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, the second-lowest figure in more than a century of federal recordkeeping, even as Americans drove roughly 30 billion more miles than they did in 2024.
Updated Apr 12
Actively investigating Tesla FSD
Tesla promised its robotaxis would be safer than human drivers. Seven months into its Austin pilot, the company's own crash reports tell a different story: one collision per 55,000 miles, roughly nine times worse than the human average. Every crash occurred with a trained safety monitor in the vehicle who could intervene—yet the system still failed. On February 3, 2026, Tesla executives defended the program before a Senate committee, insisting autonomous systems are safer than human drivers despite the data.
Updated Feb 5
Granted Tesla extension to February 23, 2026 for FSD investigation response
For a century, auto insurers priced risk based on the driver: age, driving record, location. Lemonade's January 2026 partnership with Tesla represents the first major attempt to price risk based on which entity—human or software—is actually controlling the vehicle. Tesla owners using Full Self-Driving get a 50% rate reduction on miles driven with the system engaged, a discount five times larger than Tesla's own insurance offers. The product launched in Arizona on January 26, 2026, as scheduled.
Updated Jan 31
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