Stefan Mileschin

Tesla says its car was not driving at the time

Texas police will serve search warrants on Tesla to secure data from a fatal vehicle crash after CEO Elon Musk said company checks showed the car’s Autopilot driver assistance system was not engaged.

Mark Herman, Harris County Constable Precinct 4, said evidence including witness statements clearly indicated there was nobody in the driver's seat of the Model S when it crashed into a tree, killing two people, on Saturday night.

Yet Musk tweeted that data logs retrieved by the company so far ruled out the use of the Autopilot system. This was a surprise for the coppers as this was the first time they had heard from the company.

"If he is tweeting that out, if he has already pulled the data, he hasn’t told us that. We will eagerly wait for that data."

The crash is the 28th Telsa accident to be investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which regulates vehicle safety.

It is also being probed by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which removed Tesla as a party to an earlier investigation into a fatal crash in 2018 after the company made public details of the probe without authorisation.

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