If you're actively circumventing your car's safety features to use it in out-of-spec ways it's hard to argue that an accident is anything but your own fault.
It's like pulling high negative G in a Cessna 172 and then blaming the manufacturer when the wings fall off.
but to honest, when left to its own devices the car drove at high speed into a tree. Its not a subtle obstacle. If the car can't figure out what is going on in this senario, thats not a good look.
Diving autonomously is hard, but not running into static obstacles seems one of the more basic things.
If you turn off autopilot and put a brick on the accelerator the Tesla may also drive into a tree! Or any car made in the last 100 years for that matter.
What if the Cessna salespeople and marketing was all doublespeak about high G flying (allegedly the salespeople on the floor go way beyond doublespeak sometimes)? Yeah the pilot would be to blame, but in that case Cessna would also be to blame.
> What if the Cessna salespeople and marketing was all doublespeak about high G flying
The driver deliberately set out to sabotage mechanisms which are there to protect you.
A more apt comparison would be if the pilot disabled the stall warning on the aircraft. Then attempted to do low flying maneuvers at the threshold of the aircraft's stall speed.
If someone deliberately disables safety features, they hold the bag.
It's like pulling high negative G in a Cessna 172 and then blaming the manufacturer when the wings fall off.