Here is an update on the story. Not good optics for Tesla if AP was enabled.
...His family says Huang complained about the Tesla's auto-pilot “before” the accident. ... Walter Huang's family tells Dan Noyes he took his Tesla to the dealer, complaining that — on multiple occasions — the auto-pilot veered toward that same barrier — the one his Model X hit on Friday when he died...
Dan Noyes also spoke and texted with Walter Huang's brother, Will, today. He confirmed Walter was on the way to work at Apple when he died.
He also makes a startling claim -- that before the crash, Walter complained "7-10 times the car would swivel toward that same exact barrier during auto-pilot. Walter took it into dealership addressing the issue, but they couldn't duplicate it there."
I feel sorry for the guys family but am quite amazed that the driver left it on AutoPilot when he passed the same barrier after multiple swerves towards it that couldn't be explained.
Being a hardware engineer, I would have put it on manual control along that stretch until someone could tell me what the software was “thinking”