IDK, this has the same unethical energy as police turning off body cameras.

in the BEST CASE, this is a confluence of coincidences. Engineering knows about this and leaves it "low prio wont fix" because its advantageous for metrics.

In the worst case, this is intentional.

In any case, the "right thing to do" is NOT turn off the cameras just before a collision, and yet it happens.

This is also Safety Critical Engineering 101. Like.... this would be one of the first scenarios covered in the safety analysis. Someone approved this behavior, either intentionally, or through an intentional omission.