
Episode 101: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Auto Nostalgia and the Oil Crisis
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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The Language and Discourse of the Autonomous Vehicle
There's a kind of distancing that happens in which it's almost as if blame the car, because autonomous vehicles did not yet exist. And i think part of it, too, with the discourse of the car is the language is important, but also the distanc sing. But i also that people don't think about their own we know this with consumers, right? They'll complain about the fact that the corner store doesn't exist any more, but then you've found out that they just bought everything from amazon. And so i do think we live in a kind of disconnect. So that the language and discourse is a big, big part of it; there's also our own
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