that automobility and the car are gendered and that the automobile subject represents a male one. His masculinity draws significantly on the steering and controlling of the car as a technological object. At present, driverless cars are a predominant
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Discursive Assertions of Mobility Futures
Katharina Manderscheid
Introduction
Autonomous Driving and the Transformation of Car Cultures
Jutta Weber and Fabian Kröger
more ambitious goal: fully autonomous driving. Existing concepts of the driverless car that may or may not hit the road in a few years’ time differ considerably. Something they all have in common, however, is that the promise of safer and more efficient
Kathleen Frazer Oswald
transportation: added information layers making transportation more safe, sane, and synchronized. Horizons of Smart Transportation: Driverless Cars While the car has long been the site of communication interventions, the present intensification of technology in
Combustion, Hydraulic, and Other Forms of Masculinity
An Essay Exploring Dominant Values and Representations of the Driver in Driverless Technology
Sarah Redshaw
combustion masculinity. While hydraulic masculinity is required for operating machinery and building roads and buildings, it is less visible and rarely promoted. Combustion masculinity would lose its means of expression in driverless cars if they are to be
Media Ecologies of Autonomous Automobility
Gendered and Racial Dimensions of Future Concept Cars
Julia M. Hildebrand and Mimi Sheller
driverless car to explore several different hypotheses. As advanced media and communication technologies, companies, and users become more deeply integrated with the autonomous car’s design and marketing, we seek to explore how they might further mesh
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A Degendered or Resegregated Future System of Automobility?
Dag Balkmar and Ulf Mellström
Vehicle,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 52 (2014): 113–117, esp. 116; Adam Waytz, “Seeing Human,” Slate , 13 May 2014, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/05/anthropomorphizing_driverless_cars
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automatization to deprivatize the car. Driverless cars could contribute to sustainable mobility only in combination with the cautious implementation of an alternative mobility regime that does not simply takes the promises of technology for granted. “Rebound
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kinesthetic rhetoric: navigation . Tying the ancient world to one of tomorrow, Pflugfelder turns to the myth of Athena inventing the horse’s bit (an interface for communicating with the horse) and suggests imagining what the bit might look like for driverless