Audi’s new luxury A8 sedan is claimed to drive itself in traffic jams at speeds of up to 37 miles per hour. People driving the car, however, will be well-served to keep their wits close at hand.

The new vehicle is loaded with radar, cameras, ultrasound sensors, and a laser scanner. In fact, Audi claims that it’s the first production car to use lasers, the notional gold standard for driverless vehicles, to sense its surroundings. At the time of writing Audi hadn’t responded to a request for details about the sensors. Still, it sets the company apart from Tesla, which has received criticism for the fact that its Autopilot autonomy system only uses radar and cameras, which are less accurate.

Last year, a Tesla was involved in a fatal crash when a driver used Autopilot and failed to take control of the vehicle despite numerous warnings—touching the steering wheel for only 25 seconds during 37 minutes of driving. The car collided with a semi truck that pulled out across the highway, which its radar and camera sensors failed to spot.

That laser sensor on Audi’s new car will help avoid that situation, and combined with the other technology will provide data for what Audi calls a traffic-jam pilot. This is an autonomy function, activated by pressing a button labelled “AI,” that manages starting, accelerating, steering, and braking at speeds of up to 37 miles per hour in traffic on highways where a physical barrier separates opposing traffic flow. Audi suggests that the feature can allow drivers to “take their hands off the steering wheel permanently and, depending on the national laws, focus on a different activity that is supported by the car, such as watching the on-board TV.”

That startling suggestion will prove divisive in the world of autonomous-vehicle development, where there’s somewhat of a schism in design philosophy. Some firms, like Audi and Tesla, are already pushing out autonomy features that can handle highway driving but require the driver to take over if the car can’t handle the conditions. Others, including Ford, Waymo, and Uber, are playing a longer game and trying to build vehicles that require no human intervention.