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Our autonomous future

Kassens-Noor, Eva ; Darcy, Cornelius H. (Kip) (2022)
Our autonomous future.
In: Journal of the American Planning Association, 88 (3)
doi: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2070407
Artikel, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

We are being sold a futuristic world where no one dies in traffic. The reality will be different. Peter Norton, Jean-Francois Bonnefon, and Anthony Townsend approach an autonomous future from different angles, illuminating automation as an endgame dependent upon our collective behavior. Whereas Norton is wary of history repeating itself, Bonnefon powerfully describes his and his team’s academic journey to understand the moral and ethical questions we must face in all their cultural diversity, and Townsend argues that the road ahead is very much yet to be determined. Townsend encourages us to look at existing solutions instead of aspiring to something we may never achieve. The delight in reviewing these three books is that they fit together to tell a cohesive tale of our horizon-less faith in technology and our unbridled consumerism: a utopian world in which we have zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero …

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2022
Autor(en): Kassens-Noor, Eva ; Darcy, Cornelius H. (Kip)
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: Our autonomous future
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 3 Juli 2022
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Journal of the American Planning Association
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 88
(Heft-)Nummer: 3
DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2070407
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

We are being sold a futuristic world where no one dies in traffic. The reality will be different. Peter Norton, Jean-Francois Bonnefon, and Anthony Townsend approach an autonomous future from different angles, illuminating automation as an endgame dependent upon our collective behavior. Whereas Norton is wary of history repeating itself, Bonnefon powerfully describes his and his team’s academic journey to understand the moral and ethical questions we must face in all their cultural diversity, and Townsend argues that the road ahead is very much yet to be determined. Townsend encourages us to look at existing solutions instead of aspiring to something we may never achieve. The delight in reviewing these three books is that they fit together to tell a cohesive tale of our horizon-less faith in technology and our unbridled consumerism: a utopian world in which we have zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero …

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13 Fachbereich Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften > Verbund Institute für Verkehr
13 Fachbereich Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften > Verbund Institute für Verkehr > Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrstechnik
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