NHTSA vigorously argued in court that they needed to keep the data secret because its release posed a threat of "competitive harm" to Tesla. The authors of this

NHTSA vigorously argued in court that they needed to keep the data secret because its release posed a threat of "competitive harm" to Tesla. The authors of this new study had to file a FOIA request and then sue when it was initially denied by NHTSA. In the absence of the data, I'm not sure what the editors of a peer-reviewed journal would have been able to review.