I know Tesla cutting its PR department adds to the company's scrappy edgy vibe, but messaging and basic facts on these kind of incidents shouldn't be relegated to the CEO's twitter replies to a rando [0].

Excerpt from Reuters [1]

> Herman said a tweet by Musk on Monday afternoon, saying that data logs retrieved by the company so far ruled out the use of the Autopilot system, was the first officials had heard from the company.

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

edit: For some perspective, back in 2018, when a Model X owner died in the Highway 101 crash, Tesla's PR team put out a blog post with some actual detail several days later [2]. Tesla has sold far far more vehicles since then – nevermind becoming a global operation, nevermind Boring Co. and SpaceX also growing. It makes no sense for Musk to be deep in the details of a single crash, and seeing him tweet a non-committal phrase like "Data logs recovered so far..." adds virtually nothing to an already confusing situation.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1384254194975010826

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/tesla-accident-texas/update-...

[2] https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-we-know-about-last-weeks-acc...