They shouldn't give anything to the cops.
If the driver is 100% liable without autopilot, then they should be held 100% liable with autopilot.
The law should be clear and unambiguous in this regard until we remove the steering wheel entirely.
The penalties for being at fault with auto pilot on should be even higher, since it may as well be just as bad as driving while texting!
No. If they were allowed to just say "We did nothing wrong" to not have to cooperate with an investigation, it would open the door to trivial abuse. It is reasonable to assume they are at least partially to blame. Just like a regular citizen can be arrested when they have a backpack full of money an hour after a bank robbery happened, because it is a reasonable asumption, Tesla should be submitted to an investigation until it becomes clear that the backpack's content is legit.
<<a backpack full of money an hour after a bank robbery happened>
yeah, man, IANAL, but just having money in a backpack isn't probable cause without specific facts tying that backpack to that bank robbery, and I don't think your analogy holds.
How are investigators supposed to determine the "100% liable" without access to all available data? In a typical RTC, police will seek to obtain dashcam footage from other vehicles to determine what happened and then determine liability (more likely the insurance companies or courts).
I realize I might have been overzealous in my need to stress that drivers should be held liable for "auto-pilot", when it's possible that there are situations when a vehicle system truly malfunctions / does not disengage even after driver input.
In those situations, the manufacturer should be held 100% liable, and the NTSB / other authorities would need a way to determine that - probably the same way they determine it when other car's systems fail - like, when some cars' accelerator peddle got jammed.