Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

Well first there's no way of knowing by this video that the car was in autonomous mode when it crashed. The car's data recorder would know, but we can't know from this video.

Regardless, if it was in autonomous mode, you can bet that Tesla will use this to improve the AI, making errors like this a thing of the past. In fact, not only will this car learn, but ALL Tesla cars learn to avoid this and other mistakes with each over-the-air software update. Humans and their cars won't.