Overview
- The first monograph in science and technology studies and media studies about the quest to automate driving
- Pushes beyond a purely technical understanding of autonomous driving to offer a critical account of the phenomenon
- Offers a broad, empirical focus across multiple case studies, from big tech firms to autonomous vehicle start-ups
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About this book
Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World examines the phenomenon of autonomous driving, and the ongoing, complex, costly, and contentious quest to automate driving. Principally organized around the concept of algorithmic decision-making, the book considers how different mapping, sensing, and machine learning (ML)-dependent capabilities are gifted to autonomous vehicles through different kinds of technical work: from computer science students annotating visual data in industry-funded research centres to software engineers designing ‘end-to-end’ ML models at autonomous vehicle start-ups.
The book intends to complicate, and question, typical understandings of autonomous driving by going ‘under the hood’, challenging the technological determinism or ‘decisionism’ that advocates offer of an inevitable, fully automated, future. Drawing on seven years of research in a range of empirical contexts, the book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of science and technology studies, media studies, digital sociology, human geography, and mobilities and transport studies.
Keywords
- Autonomous driving
- Decision-making
- Sensing
- Mapping
- Machine-learning
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Digital Media and Culture
- Sociology and Politics of Science
- Digital navigation
- Digital sociology
- Mobilities and transport studies
- Platform studies
- Digital methods
- Self-driving cars
- Autonomous vehicles
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sam Hind is a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester, UK. He researches digital navigation, sensing, and automobility through the lens of algorithmic decision-making and AI. He has studied technological shifts in driving and automotive navigation for over 10 years, with a particular interest in how big tech companies have sought to disrupt the automotive industry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Driving Decisions
Book Subtitle: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World
Authors: Sam Hind
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-1748-4Due: 16 September 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-1751-4Due: 16 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-1749-1Due: 16 September 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations