I hope you're right, but that's only part of the solution. Everybody in that reporting chain should be looking down the barrel of consequences. Proportional to their level of control, but harsh to be sure. Implementors need to have it made very clear to them as well that no, just-following-orders isn't enough.
I have fired clients for doing reckless and stupid things orders of magnitude reckless and stupid than what Uber has done here and I would hope that I would walk the hell out were I confronted with "we disabled the brake for a smoother ride and then disabled the alarms because they were too noisy". Do thou likewise, yeah?
I think this case is a bit too hard to prove much more than negligence, but establishing criminal liability would send the right message that you gotta do this right before unleashing it on public streets.
I have fired clients for doing reckless and stupid things orders of magnitude reckless and stupid than what Uber has done here and I would hope that I would walk the hell out were I confronted with "we disabled the brake for a smoother ride and then disabled the alarms because they were too noisy". Do thou likewise, yeah?