Survey: 42% of Tesla Autopilot Drivers Think Their Cars Can Entirely Drive Themselves

A large percentage of people who use Tesla’s Autopilot driving assist system seem to think that the tech makes their car fully self-driving — even though the software is far from capable of it. Even Tesla’s somewhat more advanced Full Self-Driving (FSD) package, which drivers weren’t polled on in the IIHS study, is still very much in beta testing. That’s so bizarre that we can barely believe it — Autopililot can keep your car in a lane with simple braking and acceleration, but it’s nowhere near a full self driving system. The IIHS survey also found that 53 percent of people who use Cadillac’s Super Cruise assisted driving software are chill with treating their vehicles as self driving, while only 12 percent of those who use Nissan/ . . .