Well, I didn't expect it to land, auto dock does that, but I kind of expected it to navigate around to the backside of the planet where the base was I had locked onto. But hey ho, no tears here, I sold it and am unlikely to buy another.☺It won't take you to the planet surface, they (Adam) said in the livestream you need to manually fly to the ground. If you have it on and target a surface base it will only take you to the planet and into orbit.
edit - which is correct, as it's not an autopilot.