It's more of a technical step forward than a feature step forward true but that's pretty significant still, IMO the gap between "driver assist" and full self dr

It's more of a technical step forward than a feature step forward true but that's pretty significant still, IMO the gap between "driver assist" and full self driving is full of things like this. Adaptive cruise control + lane keeping + automatic lane change is, from a driver perspective, feature wise 80% of the way to highway self driving but they're all limited by the requirements that they're not hands-off features. That last gap of fully letting the user remove their hands from the wheel, explicitly, and assuming liability is putting a lot more trust in the system than your 2020 Civic. If they were as cavalier about driver safety and liability as Tesla they probably could have looser restrictions on it and just push the job of being a perfectly alert safety driver onto their customers..