After negotiations with Germany’s transportation ministry

They didn't "admit" anything, they were forced to do it by the German govt. The question is why every govt in the world didn't do this a decade ago.

I reluctantly have to disagree, at least for the US. I've been in a Tesla and used "Full Self-Driving", and I never touched the steering wheel nor the pedals. It fully drove itself and handled difficult situations better than some drivers would have.

Now this was in a non-city in the US, so the roads were very standard and there weren't many pedestrians except for in a parking lot. In a busy city with different kinds of streets, it may perform worse.