@article{JRC125412,
	number = {KJ-NA-30783-EN-N (online),KJ-NA-30783-EN-C (print)},
	address = {Luxembourg (Luxembourg)},
	issn = {1831-9424 (online),1018-5593 (print)},
	year = {2021},
	author = {Van Wynsberghe A and Martinho Guimaraes Pires Pereira A},
	isbn = {978-92-76-20412-1 (online),978-92-76-20413-8 (print)},
	publisher = {Publications Office of the European Union},
	abstract = {This report summarises key findings and recommendations arising from narrative analysis of policy and industry proposals in the field of connected and automated vehicles, based on a hybrid methodology of ‘discourse analysis’ and a number of in-depth interviews conducted by
		the JRC concerning the future of mobility and in particular the issue of connected and self-driving vehicles. This hybrid methodology was a step towards critically reviewing those futures by making visible their underpinning political and social narratives.
		This work was carried out under the framing of the NewHorrizon project (newhorrizon.eu), funded by the Horizon 2020, which explores Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) inspired governance modalities through a number of Social Lab experiments. The project is
		coordinated by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna (IHS). In September 2018, the JRC became part of the Social Lab experiments as a follow-up of a RRI Social Lab co-organised with IHS. As a concrete outcome of this partnership, the JRC conducted a pilot project on the
		topic of the future of mobility and the place of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) in those visions. The pilot on ‘CAVs and the Future of Mobility’ assesses the potential implications and societal expectations of CAVs and explores various mobility narratives, ethical considerations, expectations and matters of concern toward this new type of mobility. The pilot has been providing the JRC with the opportunity to investigate whether a more persistent and broader RRI approach (Engagement, Ethics and Governance) could deliver more
		comprehensive knowledge to sustain policy design. This report illustrates the application of narrative analysis, as well as in depth interviews with stakeholders, to address the social and ethical issues of CAVs. The document reports how various stakeholders and professionals in
		the field are questioning the mobility imaginary involving CAVs that the industries are promoting and investing in. These challenges to the industry’s imaginations of mobility have led us to investigate alternative imaginaries of mobility and cities with citizens through a
		number of participatory events, focusing on their matters of concern (see Van Wynsberghe & Guimarães Pereira, 2021). The CAVs technology has been an opportunity and prompt to re-imagine plausibility and desirability of different futures.
		},
	title = {Mobility Imaginaries: Social & Ethical Issues of Connected and Automated Vehicles},
	url = {},
	doi = {10.2760/104013 (online),10.2760/411043