Can't even deal with busted ass unmarked & potholed roads. I imagine one lane gravel roads are real howlers for those Piles of crap. Taking shortcuts with your algo like this are a bad move; the only sensible way to do things is to know the extents of the vehicle, and where you are wrt/ the road. But, that's actually more effort to program, so of course they didn't do it.
Anyone paying attention knows that this is just shutting down the competition; this is how the oil biz works. Getting along with governments around the world is all about bribes.
This sounds very, very bad. Genocide and ethnic cleansing along with destroying every piece of civilian infrastructure in the country. What a nightmare.