Normally modern brakes do not contain asbestos. All major car manufacturers have not used it in decades. Why was it still being used at all?
But some low-cost aftermarket replacement brakes imported from countries where it is still legal to manufacture them, have contained asbestos. Asbestos is cheap and functional.
If you want to optimize price and fire resistance, and you have no other goals, asbestos is ideal.
But yes, VAG quite likely has other goals when designing a Lamborghini.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html doesn't specifically mention nitpicking: I admit I have the same fault (Edit: rephrased this).
Edit 2: perhaps I should have added that I think engineering is the art of making good compromises.
It seems unlikely that Lambo would use asbestos. I had made an off-the-cuff bet against a pig-headed acquantance that asbestos brakes were banned here before I knew anything. He rang up his mate with a Lambo who had some other story!
NZ has some import exceptions but it looks to me that the exceptions are mostly for something like QC training kits for recognising asbestos: https://www.worksafe.govt.nz/topic-and-industry/asbestos/imp...