The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the US agency charged with overseeing automobile safety, including rapidly proliferating self-driving cars. The agency’s new head reportedly worked on Apple’s self-driving car project until recently.

As tech companies roll out self-driving cars in ever more locales, the federal agency deciding on the future of autonomous vehicles on the nation’s highways has a new top cop: a Silicon Valley attorney who reportedly worked on Apple’s top-secret self-driving car project, but who refuses to confirm or deny the allegations to the public.

President Donald Trump’s choice for the country’s highway czar has been allowed to keep his stock in Apple, according to federal ethics disclosures reviewed by the Lever. He’s also been tied to allegations

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