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CableZL posted...

In other words lane assist keeps the car in a lane as it travels down a highway.

Yes, it also keeps the car in a lane in the parking lot, recognizing parking space markings as a place to park using the same tech, but a different operating methodology when it switches to "parking mode" from "driving mode".

It uses the same crash avoidance systems it uses on the street to recognize occupied spaces from free ones.

It uses the adaptive cruise control to move about the parking lot at speed.

All tesla did was take the same established tech that was out there and wrote software for it to operate in a different way.

EDIT: And mind you, VW group had been testing that same kind of features years before tesla ever deployed it, but they didn't package and sell it in the same way tesla did because of legal liability/straight up not getting approval from governing bodies. Tesla just yolo'd it, ate the fines and used the customers as beta testers for an unproven product. All for the sake of making a name for themselves. It was an irresponsible, and honestly dangerous play for them to make.