So, neither that article nor you substantiate the "_technically_" part of the argument. It's obviously true that autopilot will routinely disengage in circumstances where collisions are imminent, either because the car isn't responding to the controls (e.g. in a spin) or because the driver grabbed the wheel or hit the brake, which overrides and causes a disengagement.
But you and Motor Trend are going farther, and implying that this is some kind of trick invented to reduce the number of accidents reported. Which (1) clearly isn't working, since the NTSB got reports about the accidents, (2) isn't substantiated by any reporting about the company behavior, and (3) is directly contradicted by the one place where Tesla does make public numbers about AP safety. They explicitly say it includes all accidents where AP was enable within 5 seconds of impact.
To wit: this is a conspiracy theory, and you need to stop repeating it.
But you and Motor Trend are going farther, and implying that this is some kind of trick invented to reduce the number of accidents reported. Which (1) clearly isn't working, since the NTSB got reports about the accidents, (2) isn't substantiated by any reporting about the company behavior, and (3) is directly contradicted by the one place where Tesla does make public numbers about AP safety. They explicitly say it includes all accidents where AP was enable within 5 seconds of impact.
To wit: this is a conspiracy theory, and you need to stop repeating it.