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The NHTSA’s autonomous car regulators suffered layoffs after the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency cuts targeted that team, the Washington Post reported.

NHTSA's action is the first step toward any potential recall that the agency might seek against the company, which is run by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Shares were mostly steady after the notice from NHTSA.

NHTSA's preliminary evaluation follows four crash reports involving the use of Tesla's "Full Self-Driving", or FSD, software.

NHTSA's announcement comes one week after Mr Musk's glitzy rollout of the Cybercab at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, California.