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Pictures show Musk driving the prototype at the Austin Gigafactory site Friday
He said: I was just there, driving Cybertruck around the site where it will be built
On Saturday two people died after a Tesla Model S smashed into a tree in Texas
Musk said preliminary data indicates the vehicle was not operating on Autopilot, and was not part of the automaker s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system
But the accident has triggered two federal safety investigations and raised serious questions over Tesla s safety and how the car was able to move
The Cybertruck is not yet on the production line; manufacturing was due to start this year but Musk said they will be lucky to get deliveries out by the end of 2021
Will T. Varner, 59, died in the crash outside his home in Spring, Texas, on Saturday
He is thought to be the owner of the Tesla model S that crashed into flames
Varner and one other man drove from his house only a few hundred yards before smashing into a tree
He was sitting in the backseat and the other man was in the passenger seat
Police say they are baffled by the fact no one was in the driver s seat
Tesla now faces serious questions over its autopilot system and if it had anything to do with the crash
Elon Musk on Monday night said data logs show the men had NOT engaged autopilot, but he didn t expand
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Musk says Autopilot was off in U.S. Tesla crash
Police eagerly wait for crash data from Texas accident
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WASHINGTON Texas police will serve search warrants on Tesla on Tuesday to secure data from a fatal vehicle crash, a senior officer told Reuters on Monday, 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.