My Honda Minivan Drives Itself Just as Well as a Tesla on Autopilot

Tesla gets a lot of attention for its <a href="https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Autopilot feature</a>, which the company touts as offering “full self-driving” capabilities, suggesting that a new Model S or Model Y is essentially an autonomous car. Earlier this month, though, Tesla <a href="https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/tesla-full-self-driving-level-2-sae/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">admitted to California regulators</a> that their cars are anything but. “The currently enabled features do not make the vehicle autonomous,” the company’s website says. “Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability are intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment,” the site adds. I spoke to a friend who drives a Tesla with Autopilot, and he described the experience as follows: “Driving a Tesla on Autopilot is like watching a baby for hours. You’re not really doing anything, but at the end, you’re still exhausted.” Musk and others have promised the world self-driving cars <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/promises-broken-musk-offers-new-pledges-self-driving/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">since at least 2016</a>, but instead, we’ve gotten an uncanny valley of self-driving. Cars like Teslas are good enough to take some burden off human drivers with fancy sensors and software, but still require our undivided attention when we’re driving them. <a href="https://debugger.medium.com/my-honda-minivan-drives-itself-just-as-well-as-a-tesla-on-autopilot-d416931996d1">Read More</a>