I've been stood behind observing the AI drive its way around and it really does try to go via the entrances. It'll go around struts or inbetween struts, work it's way until it finds a route to where it wants to go. It gets around asteroids pretty well too.
There are a couple of times when it takes a bit of a long way round, when there's a shorter way, or just gives up and slides right through the side lines of a station (done a couple of times on Terran stations), but otherwise it's pretty good.
Thing is, I can SEE it trying to figure a logical way to do it right. Nice work, Devs.
