IMO the car signaled, changed lane and stopped without slamming the brakes. It didn't collide with anything, the pileup was formed by human drivers driving too close and too fast for their reaction time. If it had been a human driver that saw a kitten or a rock in the road, it would probably slam the brakes.

I'm not defending Tesla's FSD, which I think is inferior for Tesla's reluctance to use LIDAR in addition to cameras. Current car AIs are imperfect, they need as much info as they can if we expect them to drive safer than humans.

Right, if someone is incapacitated, putting the life of that person and others on the road in danger is still not the right move. It doesn't matter what the driver is doing, any driving system that puts other people on the road in danger does not belong on the road.

Because this is the first car pile up we've ever seen.

Interesting because a computer was involved we are incensed. "No business being on the road"... but the millions of other car crashes "oh yeah, well humans make mistakes!"

Tesla's claims of being "safer than human drivers" is as much a testament to their technology as it is to how poor human drivers are.