Basically we could do a better job engendering concern from teenagers, its not some kind of inherent mental lack of capability.
Female teenagers are way less likely to have wrecks (1) and if we assume its not driven by one's genitalia and rather by their conditioning - an assumption I hold, its something that can be taught.
"In 2019, the motor vehicle death rate for male drivers aged 16–19 was over two times higher than the death rate for female drivers of the same age."
1. https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/teen_drivers/teendr...
Besides, I had thousands of HN karma (the most important metric of maturity of course) when I was a teenager not very long ago.
every accident is a hit to their profits and pr.
At the extreme end, picture a company that manages to get an okay from the city of SF for public testing, but whose internal tests show there is a small but significant risk of serious accidents and the product needs another two years of development to be safe. Their funding runs out in one year.
What do you think they would do?