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I know the argument is always that autopilot is not intended by Tesla to be abused (never mind the CEO on national television abusing it).

However, there's what you tell humans, and then there's pragmatism regarding human nature. We should consider the latter.

It's possible to be both academically correct on the warnings/instructions given and also practically wrong on human psychology.

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Your reasoning is that people are stupid and therefore you should manipulate them 'for their own good' because they have no self-agency and self-responsibility.

Needless to say, people who think like this make terrible dictators when given the chance.

You could can easily apply this logic to say "we should revoke laws that make it illegal to drive without a seat belt", or dozens of other examples.

Humans are notorious for thinking "I'm in a real hurry, I'll leave the safety system off because I likely won't get hurt". We know that laws, rules and protocols with enforcement and negative consequences are required in order to make humans act safely at scale.

It's a good thing I did not propose that I become Supreme Dictator Strawman.

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