ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines and demonstrates a collaborative and interventional design anthropology of emerging technologies, through the example of autonomous driving (AD) cars. AD cars have been framed as solutions to everyday problems within proposals for platform-based future automated mobility systems. However, when reframed through the lens of everyday local mobilities, these industry-driven future visions are revealed to be misaligned with the real priorities of people’s everyday lives. Thus, the chapter reveals how the everyday present complicates dominant futures narratives. However, we emphasise that rather than stopping at this critique, we should productively and collaboratively engage with city and automotive stakeholders in this field in pedagogies of mutual learning, experimentation and creativity. To develop our discussion, we draw on ongoing conceptualisation and research undertaken over a period of over six years.
