It's the obvious question, but given the way the story was written, this sounds more like a drunk driver than a Tesla autopilot crash. Granted this is NBC, so it's as likely garbage as not, but the scenario rings of an impaired driver to me.

This is anything but a justification or an endorsement of Tesla's (or anybody else's) automated driving system. I think they should all be scrapped and banned yesterday. Automated driving is a really stupid idea, and there are plenty of examples where these systems are causing dangerous wrecks. This one, however, doesn't sound like one of them.