Angela Chao, Foremost Group CEO and younger sister of former US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, may have accidentally put her Tesla in reverse while making a three-point turn, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Chao died on February 11 after her vehicle was found submerged in a pond located by her sprawling, 900-acre private ranch in Blanco County, Texas, about 12 miles outside Austin. She was 50.
Blanco County Sheriffs told Austin American-Statesman that Chao may have “succumbed from being under the water.”
But details of how Chao’s Tesla ended up in the pond have not yet been divulged by authorities, leading some people, including J. Kyle Bass, a prominent hedge fund manager and founder of Texas-based Hayman Capital Management, to question if the Tesla was hacked.
“Does the Blanco County Sheriff have the technical capacity to investigate the Tesla logs to determine if the car was tampered with or even hacked?” Bass wrote on X. “This case continues to become more and more suspicious.”
In a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dated February 29, which was obtained by Business Insider, a Blanco County public information officer wrote that, while the preliminary investigation indicated that the incident was an “unfortunate accident … the Sherriff’s Office is still investigating this accident as a criminal matter until they have sufficient evidence to rule out criminal activity.”
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