Following distance aware cruise control came on the scene in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Following distance aware cruise control came on the scene in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_syst... Collision avoidance systems similarly have a long history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system As I understand it, Tesla Autopilot is a collection of these ordinary luxury car features (lane keeping, adaptive cruise control, environment sensing/prediction and collision avoidance, integrated navigation) that with branding that recognizes them for what they are: the foundation of self-driving technology.