The law says yes. However I think the law is wrong. I think the law should put the company that designed the system at fault. They are creating system that is encouraging people to not focus on the road and if they are doing that they should be responsible for what the car does.

I also think that Tesla is super irresponsible by living in the “uncanny valley” of self-driving where they advertise like it is full self driving (Autopilot) but then say the driver needs to pay attention. I think this should be illegal because it is well-known the humans can’t reliably pay attention to mundane tasks. I think Google did this right. They did an early test of self-driving with their employees, noticed that a lot of them weren’t paying attention and pulled the plug. Then they stopped testing until they had full self driving.