ABSTRACT

There is no shortage of articles, books and prognostications on an urban future dominated by self-driving cars and related tech-driven alternatives. Technological innovation and unrestrained economic growth are generally unquestioned and seen to benefit all of urban society. This contribution to Debates and Interventions shifts the spotlight away from innovation and toward a logic of repair, highlighting the injustices and inequality of the technofix, and specifically the attempts by tech and car companies alike to further entrench the logics of automobility as the hegemonic form of mobility. I situate this dominant legacy in the uneven spaces of the suburbs. The contribution argues for both a forward looking and historical minded view of repair. It turns to circular economic thinking as a way of challenging the neoliberal paradigm of tech mobility: future suburbs can either reproduce the injustices of the automobility century or overcome those injustices with an attention to repairing infrastructural relations.

摘要

关于由自动驾驶汽车和相关技术驱动的替代品主导的城市未来，不乏文章、书籍和预测。技术创新和无限制的经济增长通常是毋庸置疑的，并被视为有益于整个城市社会。这篇对 Debates and Interventions 的贡献将焦点从创新转移到修复逻辑上，突出了技术修复的不公正和不平等，特别是技术和汽车公司试图进一步巩固汽车作为霸权形式的逻辑。流动性。我将这一主要遗产置于郊区不平坦的空间中。该贡献主张对修复具有前瞻性和历史意识。