It's not even that deceptive from a technical standpoint: an airplane autopilot maintains course and speed, and nothing more. Tesla's autopilot maintains course

It's not even that deceptive from a technical standpoint: an airplane autopilot maintains course and speed, and nothing more. Tesla's autopilot maintains course (lane) and speed, and nothing more. It's in the common imagination that airplane autopilot, based on name alone is more autonomous than it is (you can't takeoff/land on autopilot in a plane, and a pilot isn't just napping during autopilot). A lot of people seem to imagine the joke version of autopilot from the movie Airplane! where an inflatable "pilot" takes over full control of the plane, when the reality is much simpler and less autonomous. The question remains if Tesla expected more goodwill from the common/popular imaginative view of the thing over the technical description, and I have no idea how "deliberate" that was. I also probably should have put a sarcasm/irony tilde on mistake as my post above was intended more as a joke than an honest attempt at problem solving.