Notably, NHTSA specifies commercial use, suggesting that personal use of self-driving cars is ... rid of "unnecessary and duplicative requirements" for the reporting process.

The moves are a boon for makers of self-driving cars and the wider vehicle technology industry, which has complained that federal crash-reporting requirements are overly burdensome and redundant.

Musk has argued that the previous reporting requirements were unfair since Tesla vehicles all use its partial self-driving systems and therefore log more miles than any other automaker with such ...

The Trump administration said it will expand a program to exempt some self-driving vehicles from all safety requirements and will maintain rules requiring reporting of safety incidents involving ...

Rule changes announced by the Trump administration last week could allow automakers to report fewer crashes involving self-driving cars, with Tesla potentially emerging as the main beneficiary.

Musk has argued that the previous reporting requirements were unfair since Tesla vehicles all use its partial self-driving systems and therefore log more miles than any other automaker with such ...