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President Donald Trump has chosen Jonathan Morrison , an Apple executive , to head up the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , per a Senate filing .
The nomination will be reviewed and vote on by the Senate Committee on Commerce , Science , and Transportation before being sent for a full Senate vote .
If he ’s sworn in , Morrison will supervise an agency that isactively examine Elon Musk ’s Tesla , investigations that Department of Transportation headSean Duffy says will go .
Morrison pass the last four years figure out at Apple , accord to hisLinkedIn . TechCrunch has reached out to Apple to learn more about Morrison ’s role at the caller .
Before that , he served as chief counsel for NHTSA during Trump ’s first term . Morrison has an self-propelled background ; he was previously Chief Executive of Auto Advisory Services and theater director of sound and regulatory affairs at the California New Car Dealers Association .
Morrison ’s car - centric career could ordinate with Trump ’s goals for the fare sector over the next four years .
Trump has already issued an executive order to pause the development offederally funded EV charge infrastructureand has delayed updates to automatic emergency braking requirement . He intend to roll back Biden - era fuel efficiency criterion , make a more streamlined way of life to develop Av , andend collapse reporting updatesfrom self - drive car companies .
