Regardless, some efforts like this are explicitly performative. In the event some problems arise and it turns out someone used a specific tool in the process of causing those problems, administrators (and insurers) can say "look we forbade the use of that tool, so this is on them and not us." In other words, enforcement is not always even the point, but it always seems to be the first stop on the concern-trolling trolley.

Finally, yes, people can misbehave and break rules, and the more effort they put into doing so, the more successful they will be at the rule breaking. Nothing about that is justification for not having rules, even when they are hard to enforce.

In this case, this is coming from Oracle, which holds the OpenJDK purse strings, so being found in violation is also likely to have financial consequences for the violator.

I can only find two fatality crashes in NHTSA data, and Waymo vehicles were merely "involved" in both of them.