Nah, it just disengages a fraction of a second before impact so they can claim “it wasn’t engaged at the moment of impact, so not our responsibility.”
There were rumours about this for ages, but I honestly didn’t fully buy it until I saw it in Mark Rober’s vison vs lidar video and various other follow-ups to it.
Right? Who made this? What millennial doesn’t remember red eye, it was in every damn photo when I was a kid and Im not a particularly old millennial.