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Placing futures in regimes of im/mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Oliver Clifford Pedersen
Concepts related to the future are abundant in research on im/mobilities. However, studies rarely explain the forces that impinge on who can imagine what future, and how these futures are funnelled...
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Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Adélia Verônica da Silva
This study explores the often-overlooked phenomenon of immobility within migration studies, focusing on the Governador Valadares Region of Brazil. Despite the region’s history of significant outmig...
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Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-25 Ole J. Müller, Thilo Gross, Kimberley Peters
Ships are technologies of maritime mobility. But sometimes ships are immobile—they stop and remain stationary for short or prolonged times. A degree of stasis inside and outside ports is both usual...
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Auto/biography and mobilities in the time of climate emergency Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Lynne Pearce, Nicola Jane Spurling
The auto/biographical genre offers theoretical and methodological starting points that are key to a just and ecological mobilities transformation. Just as the COVID-19 pandemic response and its imp...
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The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Sanghamitra Roy, Ajay Bailey, Femke van Noorloos
Public transport inherently involves encounters with other people. For women, negotiating everyday overcrowded, unsafe, and unreliable conditions is a major barrier to accessing public transport mo...
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The intelligibility of mobile trajectories: walking in public space Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Lorenza Mondada, Burak S. Tekin
This paper deals with practices of personal mobility in public space, such as walking, passing-by and queuing, and their intelligible, recognizable and intersubjectively coordinated character. Peop...
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Electric automobility and the race to road transfer: ‘Formula E’ and ‘Extreme E’ in documentary film Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Eva Gray
As the need for changes in transportation grows, the transition to sustainable mobility is being envisioned in varying ways. Shifting from traditional internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) to...
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Mobility practices in a changing climate: Understanding shifts in car ownership and use across the life course Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Henrike Rau, Antonia Matern
Mobility practices in everyday life are often highly routinised and resistant to change. But they can also change significantly over the life course, reflecting sudden ruptures linked to incisive l...
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Climate change, planetary biographies, and symbiotic mobility Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Jinhyoung Lee
This paper critically discusses the biopoliticalisation of mobility biographies in the time of climate change with reference to Gi Chang Kim’s cli-fi trilogy. The dystopian work demonstrates how fi...
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Marine pilots and the choreographic work of seaport mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Chris Gibson, Andrew Warren
Research on cargomobilities has emphasised containerisation, algorithmic management, and the cost-driven calculus of logistics firms. Less visible is the necessary human labour that coordinates car...
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Mobile safety apps: a material feminist orientation to precarious mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Ragan Glover, Melissa Stone
The pervasiveness of sexual violence in the United States was brought to public attention by the #MeToo movement, and in the years since there has been renewed attention to existing resources for s...
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Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Louise Sträuli
The implementation of fare-free public transport (FFPT) in Tallinn (Estonia) in 2013 sparked international media, policy, and academic interest in best practices, funding structures, and ridership....
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‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Ole B. Jensen
The multi-sensorial and embodied experiences of ‘being transported’ as passengers are an important, but at times underemphasized, theme in transport policy and planning. Asking the key question ‘ho...
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Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Daniel Muñoz
Modern public transport systems are typically designed by following universal aspirations to predictability and standardisation. In the case of Santiago’s public transport, however, this design phi...
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A passenger service revolution? Transport design and passenger experience on Tokyo’s urban railway network, c. 1945–2010 Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Christoph Schimkowsky
This article discusses the history of efforts to shape passenger experience aboard urban railways through transport design. Taking Japan National Railways (JNR) trains as a case study, it examines ...
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Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Tanja Joelsson, Dag Balkmar, Malin Henriksson
The welfare state planning of the Nordic countries can be said to have been carried out as political acts of state care and concern of (some of) their citizens, to tackle poverty and poor housing c...
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Are airports like cities? Affordances and people’s micro embodied interactions during the arrival experience Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno
Airports are designed to work efficiently. Specifically, they seek to efficiently process and ‘control’ people’s movements across landside and airside spaces, as well as to entice consumption throu...
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‘Social Darwinism has moved to the cycle path’: framings of micromobility in the Dutch and British press Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Clara Glachant, Frauke Behrendt
The media’s agenda-setting function in terms of selecting and presenting issues to the public and policymakers is crucial for the urgently needed transition towards more sustainable mobilities, inc...
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Understanding the experiences of return and re-adaptation among polish returnees from long-term international migration: a conceptual framework of re-adaptation Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Małgorzata Dziekońska
We already know from studies of return migration that factors such as migration duration, return preparedness, and willingness, or returned migrants’ collisions with the home country reality, are v...
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Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Vanessa Stjernborg
The Öresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark was opened in 2000, allowing both road traffic and fast commuter trains to travel between Malmö and Copenhagen. Various agreements have long facilitate...
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The long journey home: viapolitics in the journey of migrant labourers during COVID-19 lockdown in India Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Malavika P. Pillai
After the nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 in 2020, India saw a mass departure of migrant labourers from urban to native rural areas on foot, by cycle or with available means of transportation d...
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Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the west Midlands Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Noortje Marres
Do automated vehicle (AV) trials in everyday environments like urban streets constitute social tests? This article answers this question with a firm no and yes, based on field study of automated mo...
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Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Robin E. Sheriff
This paper responds to the call made by mobilities scholars to deepen attention to imagination and imaginaries by proposing that oneiric experiences – nighttime dreams – be investigated as signific...
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International students’ cultural engagement through constructing distance or proximity Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Anne-Cécile Delaisse, Gaoheng Zhang
International students’ contact and engagement with various cultures has received increased scholarly attention. This scholarship tends to either celebrate students’ cosmopolitanism or highlight th...
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The problem with Pod Man Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Emma Quilty
Pod Man is the rational, individual and hyper-masculine transport consumer entrenched in industry narratives focused on automated vehicle technologies and infrastructures. This article interrogates...
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(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Nicola Jane Spurling
The paper contributes to the theme of the special issue by making auto/biography the focal point of analysis and theorising its potential to be mobile or immobile. The theoretical developments of t...
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Towards a history of transit etiquette: the development of orderly boarding practices in Tokyo Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Christoph Schimkowsky
This article is a call for the historical study of transit etiquette: the behavioural expectations that guide the mundane conduct of transport users. It identifies the formation of contemporary pro...
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Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Sarah Walker, Elena Giacomelli
Placing attention on counter narratives from fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis in Senegal, we present how the climate crisis and its complex nexus with (im)mobility is instrumentalized t...
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Follow the commutes: the viapolitics of commuting within infrastructures of agricultural labour migration in The Netherlands and Belgium Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Carolien Lubberhuizen
Migrant mobilities and infrastructures are often studied in either urban or rural socio-spatial contexts, whereas labour migration is often studied in either labour or non-labour realms. However, a...
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‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Wilbert den Hoed, Elena Tardivo, Antonio Paolo Russo
Many tourist cities rely on walking as form of slow travel to take in the destination. Venice, the case study for this paper, is a distinct ‘walking city’, scripted into its cultural landscape alon...
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From threat to essentially sacrificial: racial capitalism, (im)mobilities, and food delivery workers in New York City during Covid-19 Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Do Jun Lee, Jing Wang
As Covid-19 spread quickly, New York City (NYC) designated food delivery as essential and stopped policing the electric bikes ridden by ‘threatening’ delivery workers. We use racial capitalism to e...
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Enunciating outrage: Sidewalk mobility injustice and activism Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Sharon R. Roseman, Elizabeth Yeoman
This article focuses on winter pedestrian conditions and sidewalk clearing activism in the Canadian city of St. John’s where most sidewalks are left uncleared over its long winters. The study emplo...
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Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Annemieke F. Visser, Jorian J. A. Moree, Nicholas Q. Emlen
The lives of young adults on Ameland, a small island off the northern coast of Friesland (the Netherlands), are defined by a particular kind of migratory rhythm between the island and the mainland....
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The mobility biography of things and the climate emergency Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Taehee Kim
This article examines the potential of the ‘biography of things’ to enhance mobility studies in the context of the climate emergency of the Anthropocene. It suggests that mobility research should t...
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Connected, programmed, and immobilised: a mobile ethnography of platform-mediated food delivery in Seoul Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Noel Chung
Against the rise of mobility platforms, this paper explores the practices and politics of mobility arising from the everyday infrastructural functioning of Baemin, the largest food delivery platfor...
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Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Chris Tennant, Jack Stilgoe, Sandra Vucevic, Sally Stares
Developers of self-driving vehicles (SDVs) work with a particular idea of a possible and desirable future. Members of the public may not share the assumptions on which this is based. In this paper ...
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2023 John Urry Article Prizewinner Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-26
Published in Mobilities (Vol. 19, No. 2, 2024)
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Re-storying gendered im/mobilities through a mobile and generationed autoethnography Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Lesley Murray
This mobile autoethnography reveals the spectacular and the mundane in gendered im/mobilities. It considers generational stories of death and near death to apparently mundane mobilities to state-in...
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Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Weiqiang Lin
Recently, the concept of mobile labour has garnered increasing attention among mobilities scholars. Yet, the preponderance of research has emphasised workers’ movements that are fairly large-scale ...
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Disruptive, dangerous, and dirty: active travel measures as a ‘cause’ of car-related externalities Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Robert Egan, Brian Caulfield
Automobility centred on private car use generates various externalities – or ‘antagonisms’ – that threaten its sustainability as a mobility regime. Through expanding the practice and spaces of driv...
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Driving as essential, cycling as conditional: how automobility is politically sustained in discourses of everyday mobility Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Robert Egan, Brian Caulfield
Car-based automobility remains dominant across Europe despite the high energy requirements such a system embeds. This system is becoming increasingly problematised. As part of an alternative vision...
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How does knowledge move? Investigating the epistemic mobilities of “climate migration” with diverse conceptual metaphors Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 David Durand-Delacre
The production of knowledge is a mobile process. Efforts to conceptualise the mobilities of knowledge draw on a wide range of metaphors to conceptualise the ways in which knowledge moves and change...
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A tale of one city through three stories of ludic mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Jan Smitheram, Akari Nakai Kidd, Ged Finch, Ewan MacMaster
Focusing on three ludic journeys through an autoethnographic account of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores how the performance of playful movements can alter the meaning, practice, and fe...
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Automation in electric vehicle futures Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Sarah Pink, Hannah Korsmeyer, Kari Dahlgren, Yolande Strengers
In this article we consider how people will live with the automated features of electric vehicles (EVs) in possible futures. We complicate dominant industry and government narratives which: envisag...
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Governmentalities of automobility in times of climate change: competing logics of circulation and imaginaries of the (im)possible Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sofie Hellberg, Beniamin Knutsson, Sara Löwgren
If we are to achieve climate change targets, transport systems need to transform. This article is concerned with the prospects of challenging the regime of automobility in urban areas. It employs a...
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Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Ilze Mertena, Maarja Kaaristo
By integrating mobilities research with practice theories, this paper uncovers the interdependencies between tourism, transport and mobilities that allows for a more comprehensive analysis of indiv...
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Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Jun Hu
This article is greatly inspired by the mobilities paradigm in its investigation of the transnational novel Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita by paying attention to a particular form of mobil...
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The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 William Walters
This paper calls for greater attention to air deportation, defined as the multiple ways in which states utilize aviation systems for the purpose of expelling unwanted people under immigration and c...
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Mobility justice or transit boosterism? The use of rail transit as an urban transformation strategy in Kitchener, Canada, and Malmö, Sweden Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Lina Olsson, Ren Thomas
Many cities and countries have embraced transit-oriented development as an international growth management approach, shifting trips from car-oriented to transit. But in this race to become more sus...
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Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Canay Özden-Schilling
In this article, I theorize the long arc of scaling as an enduring business logic in capitalism. I suggest that scaling concerns the creation of new distances in economic operations and the managem...
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Homely mobilities: between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ through tiny homes Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jan Smitheram, Akari Nakai Kidd
This paper seeks to contribute to current discourse at the intersection of mobility and architecture studies, by examining the divide between immobility and mobility through the lens of tiny homes....
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Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Franchesca Morais
Research on ‘policy mobilities’ investigates the ways in which policies and ideas flow from one place to another across interconnected spatial and temporal boundaries. However, scholars have argued...
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Seasonal differences in mobility and activity space in later life: a case study of older adults in the Northern Netherlands Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Louise Meijering, Tess Osborne, Marlene van Doorne, Gerd Weitkamp
Mobility is crucial for maintaining well-being in later life. Previous research has shown that older adults’ mobility fluctuates throughout the day, with a particular focus on afternoon outdoor mov...
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Mobility, body and space: emigrant voyages to Australia, 1830s–1880s Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Shu-Chuan Yan
This article uses nineteenth-century migration-themed texts and images as a starting point for investigating the production of various patterns of seaborne mobilities en route to colonial Australia...
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‘Everyone rides together, everyone rolls together’: exploring walking and cycling cultures in South Auckland Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Rebekah Thorne, Elizabeth Fanueli, Kirsty Wild, Ali Raja, Karen Witten, Hamish Mackie, Alistair Woodward, Lily Hirsch
In this study, we use a strengths-based approach to explore the ways that walking and cycling are practised and promoted in Māngere and Ōtara, two ethnically diverse, lower-income suburbs of Auckla...
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Enmeshed with the digital: satellite navigation and the phenomenology of drivers’ spaces Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Viktor Berger
This paper aims to develop a theoretical interpretation of how satellite navigation transforms drivers’ experience of automotive spaces. The use of satellite navigation has, so far, been predominan...
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List of reviewers Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-29
Published in Mobilities (Vol. 18, No. 6, 2023)
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The bordering and rebordering of climate mobilities: towards a plurality of relations Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Ingrid Boas, Carol Farbotko, Kaderi Noagah Bukari
The relation between climate change and migration is subject to fast growing attention in scientific, policy, and public discourse. It is also subject to numerous representations and containment me...
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The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona Mobilities (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Kathryn Robinson-Tay
In 2016, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that human error is involved in 94–96% of all motor vehicle crashes. Also in 2016, Bonnefon et al. predicted that autonomous veh...