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> I need to actively make sure the car doesn’t kill us Same experience here. Why people say this is relaxing; and takes the stress away from long distance driv

• jiggawatts 6y ago
  When I test drove a Tesla for a weekend my opinion of the Autopilot was the same as the car's owner: "It drives like a learner driver". Just like the nervous parent teaching their teenager to drive, this is not a relaxing experience. However, the speed-adaptive cruise control is the best I've ever experienced. It maintains the set speed exactly, slows down for corners automatically, and follows the car in front as if there was a steel rod connecting the two vehicles. Using the cruise control in the Tesla was some of the most relaxing long-distance driving I've ever done in my life...