The XC90's safety system was why I initially believed that the collision wasn't preventable.
Later, seeing the video, I wondered what went wrong.
While this story isn't confirmed, it explains what went wrong.
The decision to switch off an existing safety system moves this to the realm of criminal behavior. The safety system was presumably developed and tested with a careful methodology e.g. MISRA. There is quite a bit of evidence from court documents that Uber development ignored safety. There is other evidence that the Uber system was a sham demo largely based on careful mapping, close to a screenshot slideshow of a proposed system.
This is a huge disservice to the development teams that *are* treating safety as the very top priority.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
