Daily Beast: “Texas authorities plan to issue search warrants to Tesla on Tuesday for information that could shed light on a fatal crash over the weekend – after Elon Musk tried to tweet his way out of questions about the cause. After authorities near Houston announced that they believed no one had been driving during the Saturday crash, which killed two men, Tesla stock fell by nearly 4 percent – giving Musk’s net worth of nearly $180 billion a haircut of about $5.6 billion. In response to a Twitter user, Musk on Monday argued the company’s system could not be to blame. ‘Data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled,’ Musk wrote, and ‘this car did not purchase FSD,’ referring to the company’s ‘full self-driving’ feature.”

“But as of Tuesday morning, Tesla had not handed over that data to law-enforcement officials investigating the accident.Mark Herman, the constable for Harris County’s Precinct 4, where the crash took place, told Reuters that the tweet was the first the department had heard from the company. ‘If he is tweeting that out, if he has already pulled the data, he hasn’t told us that,’ said Herman, who did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast’s request for comment. ‘We will eagerly wait for that data.’ According to local officials, two men in their late 50s and 60s were found dead in a 2019 Tesla Model S near The Woodlands township in Harris County, Texas, late Saturday night. When fire crews arrived, the driver’s seat was empty, suggesting the car may have been using Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system. ‘There was a body in there in the right front seat and there was a body in the back,’ Fire Chief Palmer Buck of The Woodlands Township Fire Department told the Daily Beast.”