Elon Musk said he’d push to regulate autonomous driving on the federal level ‘if there’s a department of government efficiency’ [Video]

Elon Musk said Wednesday that he thinks autonomous vehicles should be approved at the federal level, rather than state by state, and that if he ends up with a role in the White House, he’d make it happen.

The Tesla CEO made the comment on the company’s earnings call Wednesday. Tesla’s third-quarter earnings beat expectations, and its stock was up 12% in after-hours trading following the earnings release.

Musk said during the call that he expects Tesla to have unsupervised fully autonomous vehicles on the road in Texas and California next year, pending state approval. He said he would be “shocked” if the company did not get approval, but that he thinks in general it would be better if autonomous vehicles were approved on the federal level.

“There should be a federal …