In the words of one participant in a 2016 focus group at the London School of Economics: ‘You’re going to mug them right off. They’re going to stop and you’re just going to nip round.’ Translation: these cars can be bullied. Stilgoe agrees: ‘People who’ve been relatively powerless on roads up’til now, like cyclists, may start cycling very slowly in front of self-driving cars, knowing that there is never going to be any aggression.’
