Rav Zilberstein quoted from the writings of Rav Wosner zt"l who wrote that women should not be allowed to learn to drive as it causes immodesty and is the opposite of "kol kvoda bat melech pnima", as when driving she is putting herself in the markets and streets in front of people and causing them to "stumble". Rav Wosner continued to write that he had a feeling that women driving is one of the causes of the terrible road accidents in Eretz Yisrael, when connected with all the other sins in the roads that create the dangers in the roads.
Rav Zilberstein went on to say that Rav Wosner was the posek of the generation, so in heaven they pasken like he did down here.
source: Kikar
I am not anybody to argue, and I have no information one way or the other as to what causes such road accidents, but I do sometimes wonder how they come up with these ideas of cause and effect, how they make these connections, and what they base it on. For example, in this case of the 402, the driver was not a woman, so why connect female drivers to the issue?
And, it does not seem to me that it has to be a tzniyus problem to have a owen driver... see below for explanation:
though despite it not being a tzniyus problem it will still be in conflict with kol kvoda bat melech pnima...
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