Yes, I know about that white truck death. By 'directly' I meant situation when autopilot 'went crazy' because of some bug and sent your car in a spin on a highway etc. Probably should have used different wording.

I imagined as much. Even so, "autopilot sent your car in a spin" vs "autopilot ran into a truck" is a distinction without a difference for the people inside the car.

Tesla warned that driver still should be alert, they implemented warning so driver would keep hands on the wheel etc. NHTSA reported that driver had 7 seconds to react on the truck. In a spin situation because of some bug autopilot would create the problematic situation itself, even if driver will be paying attention to the road.

Yeah, the problem was letting people get the expectation that it was an autopilot when it wasn't. Decades of Human Factors research in aviation had already established that people can't maintain focus on a sufficiently-monotonous task.