The wives are not in a position to know what was happening during that particular drive. Very strange that anyone has to spell out something this obvious to yo

The wives are not in a position to know what was happening during that particular drive. Very strange that anyone has to spell out something this obvious to you, but given your mistaken claim that what I said was “factually incorrect” I guess I do: The fact that Autopilot was not activated does not prove that it was activated. Yeah. Let that sink in. Also you neglected to notice that Autosteer, a critical part of Autopilot, cannot be activated on that road. The NTSB (not NTHSA as you mention) confirmed this. From their report, based on their testing with an exemplar car: “Autosteer was not available on that part of the road.” They were able to engage cruise control on the road but that is a very tame mode which does not accelerate with any kind of speed that would resemble what happened. It also disengages automatically if it encounters special conditions such as it would if the driver neglected to steer and allowed the car to go off the road, or if the driver purposely steers off the road, for that matter. More importantly, even if it was engaged (and there’s no proof or even indication that it was) the driver is still responsible for maintaining safe control of the vehicle.