Elon Musk’s Tesla asked law firm to fire associate hired from SEC
The agency had just opened an investigation into Tesla’s advanced driver-assistance technology after a series of crashes in which Teslas ran into one or more parked emergency vehicles. Such probes can lead to recalls, and this was shaping up to be one of the agency’s most extensive investigations to date of advanced driver-assistance technology.
Tesla owners, Tesla employees and local political leaders gather at the service bay doors during an event on Sept. 9, 2021.Mr. Musk, once her appointment became public, tweeted: "Objectively, her track record is extremely biased against Tesla." A barrage of online attacks on Dr. Cummings by Tesla supporters ensued, several of them vulgar.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Transportation confirmed Dr. Cummings’s recusal. She didn’t respond to a question about whether the social-media criticism influenced the decision. Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, stands on a stage at the Tesla Gigafactory in Brandenburg, Germany, Oct. 9, 2021.
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