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Public-Making and the Development of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Sat, May 26, 17:00 to 18:15, Hilton Prague, Floor: LL, Congress Hall II - Exhibit Hall/Posters

Abstract

This paper explores various forms of ‘public-making’ practice observed during an eighteen-month ethnographic study of the development of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in the United Kingdom (UK). There is a pressing need to understand the observable role of public-making in the development of CAVs, under the normative and analytic terms of a politics of technology that speaks to both power-relations and democracy. However, despite an enormous range of popular debate about connected and autonomous vehicles in recent years, academic research focusing on political and social understandings of CAV development remains nascent. This paper sets forth an empirically informed analysis of the politics of CAV development aimed at contributing to this important area of technological development that could potentially reshape citizens interaction with society

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