content: Because they gain more by disarming them with kindness, than allowing women to distract them with the fight. They were thinking that it's only a matter of time until the west perfects self driving cars. Once that happens they will mandate only autonomous capable cars be sold and operated within the country. Once everyone has them, they will ban women from driving again, even going so far as to mandate females not sit in the front of the vehicle without a male relative present.