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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal safety regulators have asked Elon Musk’s car company to explain how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents when they hit the road in Texas next month before a national “robotaxi” launch that is key to keeping its stock price aloft.Tesla has been told to provide information on how its taxis will operate safely in Austin, Texas, when there is fog, sun glare, rain and other low-visibility conditions that have been tied to accidents involving the company’s driver-assistance software. Those accidents, including one that killed a pedestrian, triggered the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration toin October of 2.4 million of Musk’s vehicles.

The billionaire reassured investors on an earnings call last month that the robotaxi service would launch in Austin as planned and would quicklyand other autonomous self-driving Teslas operating around the country by the end of the year.

“We expect a green light after Tesla’s response but the big focus is on more widespread launches in the U.S. after the Austin pilot kicks off,” said Wedbush Securities stock analyst Dan Ives. “It’s a pivotal time for Musk.”

On that same call, Musk said he was stepping back from his work as President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting czar. Tesla’s shares have risen 45% since but they’re still down about 17% year to date.“Personally, I don’t go on them,” Al Yurman, a former investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, said of helicopter tours. “I feel like the industry doesn’t look after itself the way it should.”

Tourist flights seemed like they might be in jeopardy after a disaster in 2009, when a Liberty Helicopters sightseeing flight carrying Italian visitors collided with a private plane over the Hudson River, killing nine.Flowers rest at the end of a pier, Friday, April 11, 2025, near the site where a sightseeing helicopter crashed a day earlier into the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Flowers rest at the end of a pier, Friday, April 11, 2025, near the site where a sightseeing helicopter crashed a day earlier into the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)After that crash, which involved missed radio communications, a distracted air traffic controller and two pilots who didn’t see each other until it was too late, the Federal Aviation Administration created new safety rules for the congested airspace over the city’s rivers.