Re: Ban it
"If the storage has been destroyed how the fuck did they know that??"
1. The car sends telemetry to Tesla via cellular data and the initial impacts would likely have triggered the transmission of event data, before the fire took hold;
2. From the linked NTSB report:
"The fire destroyed the car, including the onboard storage device inside the infotainment console (figure 2). The car’s restraint control module, which can record data associated with vehicle speed, belt status, acceleration, and airbag deployment, was recovered but sustained fire damage."
i.e. the Event Data Recorder module was damaged but not destroyed.