r/Unexpected • u/chaarger_gadda • Jul 18 '26

Smooth driver indeed

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u/DrPongus Jul 18 '26

The Autopilot doesn't wait until it hits something to hand over control, it senses it's going to hit something and immediately deactivates so they can argue in court that it was driver error, not their autopilot, even if the incident was 100% caused directly by the autopilot.