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3 years ago, during peak Autopilot hype, the media absolutely would have plastered "AUTOPILOT FAIL?????" all over the headlines. With a quiet retraction the next day with the driver admitting to a manual mistake.
I remember there was one big story about a Tesla that wrapped itself around a tree, caught fire, and occupants died. Instant blame on "Autopilot kills" and "EVs dangerous!!!" even though everyone who actually looked at the facts knew that autopilot won't even activate on that street and it wouldn't automatically go that fast.
A few weeks later post-autopsy, turns out it was a drunk dude showing off his car to his drunk friend, treated a residential road as a drag strip, with predictable results.