During my talk on March 21, 2024 at the History of Science / History of Innovations interfaculty seminar – held every Thursday at the Sorbonne’s Maison de la Recherche – I presented a few key elements from my book on the research history of autonomous driving. The course is led by Pascal Griset (specialist in […]
Just coming back from a very inspiring conference about the culture and technology of batteries (Reichweitenangst – Batterien und Akkus als Medien des Digitalen Zeitalters), organized by Prof. Jan Müggenburg (Media studies) at Leuphana University in Germany. Media theorists, historians of technology and cultural scientists presented their different approaches to this fascinating topic. My own
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The automotive industry had been in a phase of transformation for several years. We can put forward two hypotheses about the major technological changes: First, manual driving will be increasingly replaced by autonomous driving. Secondly, individual mobility is being transformed into collective mobility. What is new: these two trends are beginning to be transposed. The
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