At first, I thought the news was click bait. I watched the video fully to understand if a company like Telsa would really say something to this extent. Tes

At first, I thought the news was click bait. I watched the video fully to understand if a company like Telsa would really say something to this extent. Tesla's auto-pilot requires the driver to be alert and have hands on the wheel. The crash happened on a clear day with several hundred feet of visibility ahead, which means the only way for this accident to have occured is if Mr.Huang was not paying attention to the road. This is the official response. I'm completely baffled and at a loss of words. I feel very sorry for the family and I hope they sue the sh*t out of Tesla just for this arrogant statement. And as for Tesla, you should fire the guy that wrote this. If this official response was something approved by Musk, I just lost all respect for him. Personally, this is why I am a hardcore manual guy. I drive a stick/manual. I don't even trust automatics to do the job right, let alone some software. There's no way I'm trusting a self driving car. I personally opine that driving is actually very relevant to planning ahead. If you drove a stick, you would know you need to shift down before a steep curve to maintain traction and to reduce your inertia to turn around safely. Or, if you're planning to overtake someone, or you foresee a situation that requires braking, you downshift. As much inefficient as gearboxes + clutches + ICEs are, the ability to plan ahead and downshift correctly is an exclusive human edge that I believe strongly that computers can't mimic. If they could, we wouldn't have automatics (in 2018) that can't even downshift even with all that data from its sensors. Even the most expensive automatics w/ some sort of software fail to downshift correctly. Unfortunately, in the driving world, it's not enough if your car can drive 99% accurately as even one instance of wrong downshit/upshift can kill you easily. I strongly believe driving is best left to humans and there are simply too many variables that could be reliably fixed with mathematical algorithms. Sometimes, it just doesn't "feel" right and maybe it's ok to just trust our instincts.