If we had real AI....
It would have immediately informed the Driver: "Someone has tampered with my emergency breaking system, and my LIDAR is operating at a sub par level, do you truly wish to continue in this dangerous travel mode?" on ignition of the vehicle.
As autonomous vehicles stand we do not have this level of sophistication. They are just bots, they are a series of scripts, and nested if statements. None of which seem to have a conditional inbuilt safeguard to prevent the vehicle from operating in a setting when any of these safeguards have been turned off, for whatever reason.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
