"The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons"
https://i.imgur.com/74XHPiL.png
In fact, the entire video shows the driver with their hands off the wheel.
I think you can rightfully give them shit about calling the current gen "autopilot", and think their full of shit for claiming FSD is as close as it is, but this video is not intended to suggest you can operate the existing car in that manner.
But, if you're a newbie, you just Googled "tesla autopilot" and clicked on the first result. You see that tesla has the "future of driving" - that must be autopilot, right? You scroll down and watch the video. There's a notice that people are optional and a guy being driven around hands free.
The messaging is painfully there - autopilot does not require hands and the feature set of FSD vs autopilot is conflated in a very misleading way on that page in general. If you scroll down (albeit a heading that describes FSD), you see "The system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat."
Tesla's autopilot landing page is clearly designed to mislead unsuspecting consumers into believing that autopilot is a self-driving capability.
To the viewer, that would just look like a person driving a car.
...which is exactly how current autopilot systems are meant to be operated, if you listen to the post-crash analysis.
Which, yes, defies the whole point of having these systems entirely.
Which is why they would be hard to sell.
Which would be right.
The difference in labeling is what killed several people already.
The only other context where we currently use "autopilot" is in aircraft, and Tesla autopilot demonstrates a significantly higher level of autonomy than the autopilot of your average aircraft.
Namely, that the skies are clear.
In conclusion there are few similarities between an aircraft pilot and driving assistance in cars.
I'd actually compare the Boeing "assistance" to the Tesla "assistance" as sometimes the craft will decide to steer into solid objects based on misinterpreted sensors. But the comparison is a stretch.