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So much interesting stuff about that and this thread.

It's not a real image from the study. It's a cartoon done for that magazine piece by London-based illustrator Simon Landrein, so all of the arguments about the cartoon (trees, curve, pedestrian crossing) aren't responding to what the actual test questions were, which were asked back in 2018 moreover.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6

Then there's the #BadJournalism.