Don’t believe the hype. No matter how many driver assistance features you put in a car today, that doesn’t make it self-driving. Why? Because driver assistance and self-driving are two fundamentally different things.
Driver assistance technology still requires you to drive. Potentially less than having no assistance at all, but you still have to focus on driving. Self-driving lets you safely do things like play video games,
or take a nap.
For example, Tesla Autopilot, Cadillac Supercruise and Ford Bluecruise are all different forms of driver assistance, but none of them are self-driving because they all have one thing in common: someone
has to sit in the driver’s seat and drive, or your car isn’t going anywhere.
But a self-driving car? Just get in, buckle up, and it goes. Just press a button and it goes.
That’s the point of self-driving:
you don’t have to do anything except decide where to go.