More roads where? Which houses and shops do you propose to knock down between Chorlton and the city centre to build another road that will be just as clogged due to the well known phenomenon of induced demand?

Autonomous cars are still transporting tonnes of metal to move an 80kg human, hardly efficient. They can still only move about 2000 people per lane per hour. By comparison a bike lane can move 10000, a pavement 19000 and a tram line 22k. Not to mention the huge pollution of cars, even electric ones.

The tyres and brake pads still wear down and emit cancer causing pollutants, you still have to move tonnes of metal so need energy to be generated in electricity plants across the country. UK is mostly coal free now but if everyone switched to electric cars, ALL the coal plants would need to be on pretty much 24/7.