Elon Reeve Musk -- Chief Executive Officer and Product Architect
I do think we should have a federal. Like autonomous vehicles should be approved. It should be possible to.
Unknown speaker -- -- Analyst
Congress, if you're listening, let's get the federal AV --
Elon Reeve Musk -- Chief Executive Officer and Product Architect
There should be a federal approval process for autonomous vehicles. I mean, that's how the FMVSS has started to work, Federal Motor Vehicle. F and S is Federal --
Unknown speaker -- -- Analyst
Yeah. So, I mean, in 2017 and '18 is when the regulators started looking at it, and it's really kind of stalled since then, but we would appreciate and would support helping out with those regulators.