Automation is OK provided you know its limitations and know them well.
This fellow in Tesla car probably did not bother to read the litany of limitations in his car's manual and that's very unfortunate and stupid. I just purchased a Lexus (no autopilot here) and in its manual it has pages of disclaimers and limitations about BSM (blind spot monitor), parking assist, adaptive cruise control, etc.
There is an irony in all this - I recall the famous court battle between a family of a killed VFR-only pilot and Cirrus Aircraft Corporation alleging that during the standard Cirrus training the pilot was never shown how to press the blue button to engage the autopilot - family lawyers insisted that this would have saved pilot's life (
) and jury agreed (
).