Originally Posted by
WHBM
My understanding is that it can, or could (it has done before), but the software to do that was dumped for the version on there now, that allows manned operation. The issue is now doing a software changeover.
... and it was apparently dumped immediately after the unmanned launch, so now requires updating for consistency with updates to other code since then. Probably not involving a lot of code updates, but needing but some pretty heavy testing. Luckily there are several months before SpaceX arrives.