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Idiot drivers do idiot things, hardly unique to Tesla drivers. The whole autopilot feature-set is pretty clearly marked as beta on the screen with a clear warning, that you have to acknowledge to enable, that it is considered a beta-feature and that you should be attentive when using it.
I agree that the FSD feature-set is advertised with capabilities it in no way possesses. But everyone seems to forget that autopilot and FSD are two separate things. Autopilot is only TACC+Lane-Assist and isn't advertised as a fully self driving technology.
You would think a road with few drivers would be easier for the autopilot? But maybe the road lacked lines and marking? But wouldn't you want the car to default to human control not just keep going? Any car I've had with lane keep assist turns off of it can't find the lines. It's a pretty simple failsafe. Rather have the driver a little annoyed than injured.
You can't even enable it if it can't detect lines on the road
And the driver in the above case was holding his foot on the accelerator to override AP and stated “I expect to be the driver and be responsible for this… I was highly aware that was still my responsibility to operate the vehicle safely."