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Autonomous cars - a social, ethical, political nightmare? Helen Czerski speaks with Jack Stilgoe

Everything Electric Podcast

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What Is Technological Locking?

New isn't always better for a few reasons. We are stuck with some systems that are a set of historical accidents or poor decisions made in the past. Technological locking is the way in which societies get stuck with particular technology. The QWERTY keyboard doesn’t work very well but we're stuck with it because we've got used to typing on it, right? So even though it doesn't work very well it is locked in and in some ways the cities that we live in are locked into particular forms of transport.

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