@VikH Better brush up on your reading comprehension. Inability to detect lane lines is not the same as "cresting a hill." In our example, there was no hill.
Thank you for being courteous Your first post is not clear. You state there is a dip in the road and that AP disengages, but then also say the car swerves. The car is swerving with AP off?
Well, yes, it does require more mental effort because it requires you to be able to take over and correct in a fraction of a second, which is insufficient to gain complete situational awareness, therefore it follows you must always be as aware of your surroundings as if you were driving yourself or more. Think driving instructor, does it take more or less mental effort to drive with a student driver? After all, most students can keep the car in the lane probably better than Tesla AP (1 or 2).
Now, just because the AP fine print requires it, doesn't mean you can't get away with less. Lots if people do it and some eventually end up in accidents. Statistically speaking there will be people who will not get into accidents while completely trusting AP too. Just because someone survived Russian Roulette doesn't make it a safe game to play.
To be clear, I am talking about usage of AP on long distance highway travel (not local driving). Being aware of your surroundings is not the same as driving (watching the road+modulating throttle+steering input). Also, I never said I completely trust AP. There are several scenarios where AP does not do well, as mentioned previously.
I never said driving with AP is like playing Russian Roulette. I was using the game to illustrate the fallacy of "lots of people do something and they are fine, so must be safe " used by a lot of people in this thread
Who said AP is 100% safe? You are assuming that everyone using (or misusing) AP has no clue of the risks or issues with the system. I think a lot of people do understand the risk and they manage that risk accordingly.
True, unfortunately I don't have stats (Tesla does not release those). Insurance companies do, but it takes time before they are public. We do know a number of insurance companies have been hiking the Tesla rates recently, read into this what you will.
That is a pretty big leap and first I have heard that insurance rates are increasing because of AP caused accidents. How do you know all insurance companies are hiking rates for Teslas across the country? If true, there are several factors (unknown to us) that may be causing high rates - maybe its related to the expensive aluminum body repairs and limited number of Tesla body shops.