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		dingo_bat on Aug 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Just Drove Eight Hours on Tesla Autopilot If I'm not wrong, autopilot can follow set route also and if the airport supports it, it can land autonomously too. Tesla's use of the term is highly misleading.

antmldr on Aug 11, 2016 [–]

No, but granted we're getting into semantics. Feature 1 you describe is provided by the Flight Management System[0], and feature 2 is provided through Autoland[1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_management_system [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland

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