Comment by knbknb

That's what had to happen.

To bid for lucrative defense contracts (and who knows what else from which organizations and governments).

Also, competitors are much less constrained by safety constraints, and slowly grabbing market share from them.

As mentioned by others: Enormous amounts of investor money at stake, pressure to generate revenue.

Next up: they will replace "safe" with "lethal" or "lethality" to be in sync with the current US administration.