Van Wynsberghe Axelle, Guimarães Pereira Ângela
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy.
Humanit Soc Sci Commun. 2022;9(1):284. doi: 10.1057/s41599-022-01209-1. Epub 2022 Aug 22.
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 problem as articulated in policy documents. By investigating the matters of concern of participants, the problem of mobility was redefined in their own terms, and alternative futures were explored. We use the concept of MacGuffin as means to explore the wider relevance of CAVs in mobility futures.
联网自动驾驶汽车（CAV）试点项目旨在探索参与者对替代性出行的想象。这些想象挑战了汽车和科技公司所呈现的自动化未来愿景。本文采用后常规科学和数字人类学方法来探讨自动化技术问题以及公民在塑造未来出行方面所起的作用。通过叙事分析、与利益相关者的访谈以及未来制造工作室，这一公民参与过程解构了联网自动驾驶汽车的技术承诺，以及从参与过程的参与者角度来看其合理性和可取性。我们的研究结果表明，该技术所解决的问题与政策文件中阐述的出行问题不同。通过调查参与者所关注的问题，出行问题按照他们自己的方式被重新定义，并探索了替代性的未来。我们使用麦高芬的概念来探讨联网自动驾驶汽车在未来出行中的更广泛相关性。
