The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been hard at work lately, keeping up with dozens of recalls that impact millions of cars on American roads, investigating companies like Cruise and Tesla as they test new technology in public, and writing new rules and regulations it also has to enforce. Now, the government is spreading its massive job cuts to the Department of Transportation, offering payout deals to thousands of federal workers at NHTSA, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, and the Federal Aviation Administration.
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