University of Münster, Germany.
University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Public Underst Sci. 2020 Jan;29(1):61-75. doi: 10.1177/0963662519885550. Epub 2019 Nov 11.
Although autonomous driving is expected to provide a solution for various mobility-related issues, ideas on how the technology will actually unfold are vague. Nevertheless, stakeholders in the field hold expectations about the technology and the future users. With very few exceptions, so far research does not focus on these expectations as social constructions of individuals and publics. In addition, these perceptions play only a minor role in the technology-centered debate. Thus, to bring these perceptions to light and to analyze their implications, we draw on the sociotechnical imaginaries approach to reconstruct stakeholders' views of future users and publics. We perform a qualitative content analysis and show that imaginaries unfold along the themes of responsibility for the process of driving, rationality in decision-making, and acceptance for emerging technologies. We discuss how the themes relate to each other, what role science plays, and what implications follow from the respective stakeholders' views.
虽然自动驾驶有望为各种与出行相关的问题提供解决方案，但人们对这项技术的实际发展方向还存在诸多疑问。不过，该领域的利益相关者还是对这项技术及其未来用户抱有一定的期望。到目前为止，除了极少数的例外情况，研究还没有将这些期望作为个人和公众的社会建构来关注。此外，这些看法在以技术为中心的辩论中只扮演了次要角色。因此，为了让这些看法浮出水面，并分析它们的影响，我们借鉴社会技术想象方法，重构利益相关者对未来用户和公众的看法。我们进行了定性内容分析，结果表明，这些想象是沿着以下主题展开的：对驾驶过程负责、决策的合理性以及对新兴技术的接受程度。我们讨论了这些主题之间的相互关系、科学扮演的角色，以及各自的利益相关者观点所带来的影响。
