Indeed, and not only that, Elon Musk's example of Autopilot supposedly saving lives that he famously tweeted a while back was manual driving + active driver ass

Indeed, and not only that, Elon Musk's example of Autopilot supposedly saving lives that he famously tweeted a while back was manual driving + active driver assistance in the form of automatic emergency braking (which is supposed to become mandatory on new cars at some point). It happened in conditions far outside what Autopilot was capable of actually driving in.