Research on autonomous vehicles has hitherto been largely concerned with its technological infrastructure, and with the management of smart transport systems in urban space. While there is a growing body of work on the sociological perspectives of autonomous vehicles, it has tended to remain technocentric, focusing on how self‐driving innovations have an effect on cities and urban lives. By thinking through the notions of sensation, action, and encounter, this paper advances a reconceptualisation of autonomous vehicles that better accounts for human agency and sentience in an increasingly automated urban world. More broadly, this paper seeks to illuminate the emergent and creative potential of urban life to unsettle and complicate the taken‐for‐granted power of smart and autonomous technologies in enacting urban transformations.

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自动驾驶汽车，人力资源和城市生活潜力

迄今为止，对自动驾驶汽车的研究一直主要涉及其技术基础设施以及城市空间中智能运输系统的管理。尽管从自动驾驶汽车的社会学角度出发，工作量在不断增长，但它一直以技术为中心，着眼于自动驾驶创新如何影响城市和城市生活。通过对感觉，行动和遭遇的概念进行思考，本文提出了对自动驾驶汽车的重新概念化，它可以更好地说明在日益自动化的城市世界中的人类代理和感知力。从更广泛的意义上讲，本文旨在阐明城市生活的新兴潜力和创造潜力，这些潜力可能会使智能和自主技术在实施城市转型中所赋予的力量不安定并使之复杂化。