We all agree the technology failed.
Where I work, I have been assigned a golf cart for getting around campus in my official capacity. Recently, a leaf spring clamp on the left rear wheel broke, and the tire rubs against the fender when I make right turns. Our fleet mechanic says the golf cart is safe to drive in this condition, but I looked underneath, and one of the leaf springs has turned 90 degrees, making it vertical instead of horizontal. (This is one reason I regard our fleet mechanic as a hack. I don’t think highly of him or his professional standards.)
Although I was given the go-ahead to drive my golf cart, I have elected to take it out of service until it is repaired, because I know that, as the operator of the vehicle, the ultimate responsibility for operating it safely resides with me. I tend to hold myself accountable that way. That’s my philosophy on the operation of a motor vehicle, that it’s up to the operator to ensure its safe operation. Anything else is passing the buck.
I could continue to drive my golf cart, and rely on my mechanic’s opinion as an excuse to avoid responsibility when something happens, but that isn’t how I roll. Perhaps that is why we have a difference of opinion on where the responsibility ultimately resides on a car that was not yet deemed safe for full autonomous operation, and was supposed to be monitored by a driver.