President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team wants to scrap a provision requiring automakers to report accidents involving vehicles with self-driving systems, Reuters reported on Friday, a move that aligns with Elon Musk’s opposition to the specific requirement as Tesla is responsible for most of the accidents reported.

Musk, the world’s richest man, spent more than $250 million helping Trump campaign.

Eliminating the accident reporting provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the accidents — more than 1,500 — to federal safety regulators under the program. Tesla has been targeted in investigations by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

The recommendation to scrap the accident reporting rule comes from a transition group tasked with crafting decisions to be implemented in the first 100 days on vehicle policy. The group called the measure a policy for “excessive” data collection, the document seen by Reuters shows.

Musk and Tesla did not respond to requests for comment.

Jason Miller, Trump’s senior adviser on transition policies, said Tuesday that the recommendations came from “outsiders who have no role in the administration’s policymaking.”

Reuters was unable to determine what role, if any, Musk may have played in shaping the transition team’s recommendations or the likelihood that the administration would implement them. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group that represents most major automakers except Tesla, has also criticized the provision as onerous.

A Reuters analysis of NHTSA crash data shows Tesla was involved in 40 of the 45 fatal crashes reported to the agency through Oct. 15.

Among the Tesla crashes investigated under the order were a 2023 fatal crash in Virginia in which a driver using the car’s Autopilot function collided with a trailer and another the same year in which a Tesla on Autopilot pilot hit a fire truck, killing the driver and injuring four firefighters.

NHTSA said in a statement that such data is critical to evaluating the safety of emerging automated driving technologies. Two former NHTSA employees said the crash reporting requirements were crucial to the agency’s investigations into Tesla’s Autopilot features that led to recalls in 2023. Without the data, they said, NHTSA could not can easily detect crash patterns that highlight security issues.

NHTSA said it has received and analyzed data on more than 2,700 crashes since the agency enacted the provision in 2021. The data influenced 10 investigations at six companies, NHTSA said, and there were nine safety-related recalls involving four different companies.