The politics and imaginary of 'autonomous vehicles': a participatory journey.

ABSTRACT: The Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) pilot project set out to explore the alternative mobility imaginaries of participants. These imaginaries challenged the automated vision of the future presented by vehicle and technology companies. This paper takes a post-normal science and digital anthropology approach to the question of automated technology and the role that citizens have in shaping mobility future(s). Through narrative analysis, interviews with stakeholders, and Futures Making Ateliers, this citizen engagement journey deconstructs the technological promises of CAVs, as well as their plausibility and desirability from the point of view of the participants of the participatory journey. Our findings suggest that the technology is solving a different problem than the mobility prob

SUBMITTER: Van Wynsberghe A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9395839 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature