bulldoze vs in the driver’s seat

bulldoze

verb
  • To destroy with a bulldozer. 

  • To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does. 

  • To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully. 

  • To push through forcefully. 

  • To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over". 

in the driver’s seat

How often have the words bulldoze and in the driver’s seat occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )