Behind the apparent oxymoron of the “slow revolution” lies the future of mobility, which will be disrupted by highly automated driving technologies at once gradually yet radically. The premise is that three factors – the slow evolution of technique, the average renewal times of global car fleet and the current vehicle ownership paradigm – will set the scene for a long middle age, in which highly automated vehicles (HVs) will share the roads with conventional ones (CVs). The Article suggests that it may be premature to follow revolutionary approaches to regulation, since it is not entirely predictable how technology and mobility will evolve. In the first phase of coexistence, conventional vehicles will be an overwhelming majority: extending the current liability regimes to autonomous vehicles could be a good solution to ensure legal certainty and swift compensation to the victims. Given the lack of a European intervention, this is the direction taken by the German legislator, although the allocation of liability costs raises some concerns.