I think a normal person’s interpretation of the “autopilot” term even when it comes to planes has nothing to do with the technicalities but rather an overview o

I think a normal person’s interpretation of the “autopilot” term even when it comes to planes has nothing to do with the technicalities but rather an overview of what it can do: fly the plane for hours with little to no intervention. A plane never needs to avoid lane dividers though. And when the plane’s AP disengages, pilots have more than fractions of seconds to avoid a crash and possibly death. I think this is what people expect from AP now, because that’s how it’s marketed: to do the heavy lifting 90+% of the time and when it fails and disengages It should give plenty of time to react. Going forward AP will start to mean more and more “fully self driving”. Because that’s what some manufacturers claim it can do short of pesky legislation. So no supervision, no disengagement, just “piloting automatically”. And everyone pretty much has similar expectations from “automatically”.