Of course, while magical by the standards of my previous cars, it’s still rudimentary. It doesn’t do a good job of catching people merging in front of me and slowing down appropriately and while I often use it on surface streets as well (giving me more consistent acceleration and better gas milage), it will happily drive right through a stop sign or red light if there’s no car in front of me coming to a stop.
This puts the automation into the danger valley between manual operation and pushing a button in an elevator. Really, anything short of elevator-level automation, especially without high-level training (consider the accidents that happen with jet autopilot even with that training) is ultimately going to be more dangerous on balance because it can lull the operator into a false sense of complacency.
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1. It also gets very upset if it detects your hands not on the wheel as I discovered when I decided to see if the car really was steering itself through the curves.
until i learned it's habits driving with the assistance was very stressful.