I always see this argument and it's like everyone's forgotten that AP isn't the only automatic safety system. My Volt had the same exact hardware as AP1 (from

I always see this argument and it's like everyone's forgotten that AP isn't the only automatic safety system. My Volt had the same exact hardware as AP1 (from Mobileye). GM decided not to play games with marketing, and had it only intervene in cases of immediate danger. For example, you could try and get it to follow lanes, but it's guidance would be directly proportional to your steering input, and it would intentionally stop intervening the moment you were back in your lane, eventually disengaging if you weren't trying to correct at all. - At night in pouring rain coming around a tight highway turn, my car stopped for an overturned box truck covering 2 of 3 lanes and allowed me to go around it. It saved my life with very little fanfare. AP didn't have to be called AP. AP didn't have to be something you can let take over (except jk don't let it take over or we'll victim blame you when it kills you). AP could provide traffic-aware cruise control, could take over when you drift out of your lane, swerve away from imminent crashes, and you would still have been saved from that T-bone, and Walter Huang would still be alive today. But then Tesla couldn't charge extra for Advanced AP, then extra on top of that for FSD.