Presentations that promote the development of self-driving cars often begin with what in Michel Foucault’s words could be called a “theatre of pain” (Foucault 2012: 42). While photos show demolished school buses and cars torn in half, the presenter intersperses these drastic images with figures: 1.2 million people are killed on the roads every year, making road accidents the leading cause of death for 15- to 29-year-olds worldwide (WHO 2015: 2). Automated driving systems are to put an end to end this tragedy: humans must hand over control of the vehicle to learning algorithms that are superior to human skills and are never tired, distracted or drunk.
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Mitteregger, M. (2023). At the end of the road: Total safety: How the safety concept of connected and automated driving systems is changing the streetscape. In AVENUE21. Planning and Policy Considerations for an Age of Automated Mobility (pp. 177–195). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67004-0_10
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