With the car no longer in custody, they probably can’t determine if the software or hardware had been hacked and the doors wouldn’t open or the car respond to any of the driver’s commands while it drove into the pond.
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I wondered about that when the topic was discussed here on one of the earlier postings a week or so ago... There is a reliable source named Kyle Bass who seemed to indicate (and I’m paraphrasing) that the car was violently out of control and there is video of it entering the pond.... I think he said it entered the pond going backwards after going over an obstacle. To say that all sounds very unusual is obvious and as anyone knows who has driven a car backwards at high speed, it isn’t all that easy to do. I suppose there could be a few explanations for that.. 1. She was in some kind of physical/mental distress, 2. The car was being controlled by somebody else or 3. The software malfunctioned.
Let’s say it was No. 3 of those possibilities... Is this why the Chao family has insisted that they take ownership of the car?
Funny anecdote—decades ago I was driving an old beater car and brought it in for some minor maintenance.
An hour later the mechanic came out and said “Sir you have a major problem with this car.”
I asked what it was and he said “You cannot accelerate in reverse.”
I laughed and said “I don’t care.”
I drove it for a couple of years after that.
:-)