Yeah, the "auto-pilot" is essentially VERY advanced cruise control and should be treated as such.

I've actually driven a Tesla in autonomous mode. A friend of my mother has one and he took me out in it. I only drove with it on for about half a mile and it was certainly impressive but I would NEVER surrender to it completely and assume that I could take my eyes off the road. The best I could describe it was, again, advanced cruise control. It was really cool, but it wasn't a self-driving car.