In a nutshell, this whole process is the reason two Tesla owners are without heads. I realize that has nothing to do with the parking sensors, but the real problem is the engineering process.
Tesla is single handedly responsible for setting the robotics industry back decades (pre 2007) with their capricious and glib attitude toward autonomous safety. Back then, its was completely unheard of for people to be testing 2-ton autonomous hardware in public on consumers. Enter Tesla and Elon Musk, and suddenly they are responsible for a general attitude that it's okay to just put these things into your community without any warnings, or laws, or safety protocols, or apparently even sensors.
Capitalists gonna capitalist, and unless laws or regulations prevent Tesla from testing their software in the public, they're going to march forward.
As for the accidents/deaths, responsibility needs to be shared between the owners as well as Tesla's marketing. Naming a feature "full self driving" when it's only level 2 autonomy is disingenuous at best. This may be a large part of the reason that people trust the system more than they should (fall asleep, stop paying attention, etc.)
I place blame first on Musk and the executives, but then on the engineers, and third on marketing. Because the engineers know, or should have known, better. They were educated to know better. I know some of those people and they are smart people. I know for a fact they know better. And yet two heads are without bodies.
They knew what the fix was after the first decapitation. Real sensors. Don't test on public roads. Don't test on consumers. That they didn't quit en masse after that is on them. That they went on to continue building and shipping the car without fixing the problem, leading to a second decapitation... there are no words. Malpractice doesn't cover it.
It's as if you were an engineer for a bridge which resulted in a collapse that caused loss of life due to the poor bridge design. If you go on to make that same bridge again... that's on you.
Tesla is single handedly responsible for setting the robotics industry back decades (pre 2007) with their capricious and glib attitude toward autonomous safety. Back then, its was completely unheard of for people to be testing 2-ton autonomous hardware in public on consumers. Enter Tesla and Elon Musk, and suddenly they are responsible for a general attitude that it's okay to just put these things into your community without any warnings, or laws, or safety protocols, or apparently even sensors.