understudied aspect of autonomous vehicles. With the car and systems of automobility being “redesigned” and “reengineered,” gendered practices are also likely to change—the question is how and in what ways. 14 We see two tendencies that will constitute the
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Masculinity and Autonomous Vehicles
A Degendered or Resegregated Future System of Automobility?
Dag Balkmar and Ulf Mellström
Autonomous Vehicles and Gender
A Commentary
Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder
As Katharina Manderscheid explores in this special section, autonomous vehicles—along with flying cars and unlimited, renewable fuel sources—have been consistently predicted by futurists for some time. Though we are unlikely to find ourselves
The Rise and Fall of the Segway
Lessons for the Social Adoption of Future Transportation
Andrew V. Clark, Carol Atkinson-Palombo, and Norman W. Garrick
mastermind, only lends it more weight and credibility. 1 The car, the iPhone, and the light bulb all would be worthy contenders for such a statement. The prediction could easily be referring to autonomous vehicles, given the talks of the driver being
More Than Trolleys
Plausible, Ethically Ambiguous Scenarios Likely to Be Encountered by Automated Vehicles
Noah Goodall
Control,” U.S. News & World Report , 24 October 2018, https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/cheapest-cars-with-adaptive-cruise-control . 2 “40+ Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles,” CB Insights—Blog , 28 August 2019, https
A Brief History of Smart Transportation Infrastructure
Kathleen Frazer Oswald
early automobility, and visions of autonomous vehicles. Synchronizing Trains by Fixing Time James Carey explains that the development of electronic communication made it possible for messages to move across vast distances faster than they could
Introduction
Autonomous Driving and the Transformation of Car Cultures
Jutta Weber and Fabian Kröger
included in this vision. Based on popular media debates and a Volvo research project on automated trucks and their future users, the next contribution, “Masculinity and Autonomous Vehicles: A Degendered or Resegregated Future System of Automobility” from
Getting Behind the Object We Love the Most
Cars: Accelerating the Modern World Victoria and Albert Museum
Robert Braun and Richard Randell
present: the ‘driver problem’ in the autonomous vehicle sociotechnical imaginary,” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7, 163 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00655-z . 8 John Urry, What is the Future? (Malden, MA: Polity Press
Combustion, Hydraulic, and Other Forms of Masculinity
An Essay Exploring Dominant Values and Representations of the Driver in Driverless Technology
Sarah Redshaw
more easily take to automatic features and being less active in their engagement. It has been assumed that women will take to autonomous vehicles more easily than men, though a recent survey found women less trusting of driverless technology. 44
Media Ecologies of Autonomous Automobility
Gendered and Racial Dimensions of Future Concept Cars
Julia M. Hildebrand and Mimi Sheller
them and their environment. As we see even the act of driving being extended to the autonomous vehicle, we are urged to question how the internal and external car ecology, and our place within it, changes. However, this foray into the car
Oceanic Travels
Future Voyages for Moving Deep and Wide within the “New Mobilities Paradigm”
Kimberley Peters and Rachael Squire
recent book on the future of driverless cars, Aharon Kellerman acknowledges studies of autonomous vehicles can be traced historically to the long usage of underwater vehicles, used in scientific exploration. 9 Yet, these uses, together with the