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.
Was it "left to its own devices" though?
You can't put the car in drive from the back seat.
Autosteer is limited to 5MPH over the speed limit unless you are on a divided highway.
The car seems to have accelerated faster than it normally accelerates under autopilot.
Something doesn't add up here.
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.