Almost every month, I think about William Gibson's talk of cardboard car bodies in The Peripheral, and wait to see it eventuate. If the cars drive themselves a

Almost every month, I think about William Gibson's talk of cardboard car bodies in The Peripheral, and wait to see it eventuate. If the cars drive themselves and we are then less rushed as we can entertain/work during a drive, will lower speeds be accepted? And if they're safer as a result of the self-driving and lower speed, could a cheaper shell work? And even more so if price is a primary consideration and you don't own the car? In Australia, a scrape on your car feels like the beginning of the end. In Europe, where people cram into tiny parks out of necessity, bumps and scrapes seem more like a fact of life.