That's straight up a lie.
In all situations where autopilot was disengaged shortly before a crash, the autopilot is implicated in the crash. Both by Tesla's own standards and by NHTSA standards.
And yet, people who really should know better repeat this as gospel.
the Tesla standard is 5 seconds, NHTSA says 30 seconds
Luckily, none of the Tesla data is available because they're currently getting away with redacting so much in their reports they're essentially useless