We were in an accident during an automated driving tech demo

Click bait. The automated braking was disabled when the accident occurred.

"...it was disabled for the demo because it had been throwing too many false positives..."

Then they blame the human driver and say "...but if our auto braking system were working, it would have stopped the car in time" (paraphrasing).

Would that screen hurt the front passenger in case of airbag deployment?

So Type-1 and Type-2 errors all in one demostration.

Sweet.