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No, it's more an increased reaction time issue. If your hands are not on the wheel, that means your reaction time to an AP problem would be that much slower. If you take the classic scenario where you are following a car on AP and it suddenly swerves to avoid a stationary object at the last second, hands on you may just react in time, hands off and you are almost certainly going to crash.
While it is true that reaction time increases driving hands-off, this wasn’t the reason for the accident in either the white truck crash nor the lane divider crash nor the Uber crash. The reason was people were not attentive and did not react at all (not even braking).
The false-faced game that Tesla plays is that they‘re, intentional or not, subversively promoting hands free driving in the media, e.g. Elon Musk himself driving hands-free in a Model 3 in a CBS show, see minute 1:24
Tesla also enjoyed the positive media feedbacks and excitment of all the journalists showing off hands-free driving with 7.0 of autopilot, which made a long lasting impression about the capabilities of Autopilot at potential customers.
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