ABSTRACT
Mobility is part of how we live; it depends on energy, increasingly uses digital data and has long been associated with visions of the future and emerging technologies. In dominant industry and government narratives, emerging mobilities technologies promise environmental sustainability, to democratise access to safe mobilities, reduce inequalities, make transport more equitable and affordable, and create new jobs. But they often fail to deliver. In this chapter, I ask how emerging mobilities technologies might better be engaged and embedded in relations of care, trust and hope, involving humans, other species and the environment. I respond to these questions through a discussion of the emergence and possible futures of emerging automated and connected mobilities technologies through a focus on flying cars, self- or autonomous driving cars, and electric cars. I argue that we need to tell new stories, by opening up the possibilities of emerging electric and automated mobilities to publics, speculative design and experimental futures ethnography.
