I am totally with you and this is the ideal situation in a perfect world. However, prior to any tweets by Musk, the media already claimed that autopilot was (l

I am totally with you and this is the ideal situation in a perfect world. However, prior to any tweets by Musk, the media already claimed that autopilot was (likely) on as there was no person in the drivers seat. Is it possible that Tesla's response would have been different in case there were no such claims being made initially?