{"id":9476,"date":"2015-06-24T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T08:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:56:41","slug":"the-world-of-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2015\/06\/24\/the-world-of-self-driving-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Of Self-Driving Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s easy to get all..Silicon Valley when drooling over the possibility of a world chock-full of self-driving cars.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is that a world where self-driving cars are a reality will be as prickly as the world today, only Algorithms will be the source of our frustration rather than other drivers..at least until the underground of self-driving car retrofits, mods and hacks come along and everything goes all amuck despite Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon’s best efforts to convince us things are better..<\/p>\n

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It’s easy to speculate breathlessly about the world of the future when the self-driving car is normal, ordinary and everyday. However, when an idea moves from speculation to designed product the work necessary to bring it into the world means that it is necessary to consider the many facets of its existence \u2014 the who, what, how, when, why’s of the self-driving car. To address these questions we took a sideways glance at it by forcing ourselves to write the quick-start guide for a typical self-driving car.<\/p>\n

A Quick Start Guide as Design Fiction Archetype<\/strong><\/p>\n

To spark a conversation around the larger questions regarding a technology that could substantially change mobility in the future we followed a Design Fiction<\/a> approach to produce this Quick Start Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our Quick Start Guide is a 14-page z-fold document from the near future. It’s a reminder that every great technology needs instructions for the uninitiated. That instruction may be a document, a tutor from a friend, ‘rider’ instructions \u2014\u00a0something that gives a feel of the things car owners might do first and do often with their first self-driving vehicle. Get your copy<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This Design Fiction archetype is a natural way to focus on the human experiences around complicated systems. It implies a larger ecosystem that indeed may be quite complex. It also allows one to raise a topic of concern without resolving it completely \u2014\u00a0often an approach that’s necessary in order to not be bogged down in details before it’s necessary. For example, mentioning that it costs more to park your car rather than sending it back on the roadway as a taxi is a way to open a conversation about such a possibility and its implications for reclaiming space used by parking garages. In the Quick Start Guide, you will find:<\/p>\n