> Clearly any dolt practicing defensive driving would anticipate the self driving car cutting him off and hard braking.

Not sure if you are being serious. How can you tell whether a car is driving autonomously? Expect it from any Tesla?

I haven't consciously ever seen a car driving itself. And I like to think of myself being pretty defensive as a driver. I'm not even sure if the feature is available in Australia.

> Pedantic analysis of DMV regulations is absolutely essential.

If you think following the most basic driving safety rule is 'pedantic', please don't drive.

> Clearly any dolt practicing defensive driving would anticipate the self driving car cutting him off and hard braking.

The Tesla was 100% at fault, nothing can be done when you get cut off like that. But that's not the case for every single car behind them that failed to stop in time.

> Stories like this make people think that full self driving is actually a car the drives itself fully.

In my opinion Tesla has been criminally misleading with their avertising. The level of gaslighting they've been able to get away with is unbelievable.