> Why didn’t the car react to the aircraft? Did it not detect it, or did it fail to judge it’s location?

Because these smart vehicles are dumb as fuck when you put them anywhere other than on a well maintained, sunny, first world country highway. Not so long ago teslas braked on the highway when going under signs because they thought the shadow was an obstacle. A few of them crashed in overturned trucks because they though their roof was the sky/a cloud, one even missed a damn firetruck and smacked into it at full speed

When you have thousands of cars out there your one in a billion edge case will happen, this is the perfect example. A ten years old would have braked, the tesla didn't