The future shape of AV fleets is far from clear, however.

“We're really trying to push the wider public sector to go, ‘Oh, hang on, this does actually have quite significant impacts.’”

And they, in some senses, have a really good window now to shape market evolution,” he says.

“Regulators, transport operators and civic society have a lot of opportunity to shape things at the moment.

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