If the driver had "five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider", then didn't the car, too? I'm not disputing their statistics, but

If the driver had "five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider", then didn't the car, too? I'm not disputing their statistics, but reading past the first two paragraphs of this article left a sour taste in my mouth. Feel like a better message ought to have been "we're going to learn from this, and won't stop improving until the crash rate is 0".