U-TOKYO DLX Remote Driving Futurespective WorkshopWhat is remote driving and what would it mean for future society - from rural populations to people with unconventional needs?
DLX Kashiwa is working on a project exploring the future of mobility and rural-urban transport in Japan. This workshop invited people of all backgrounds to gather and enquire about the human implications of future mobility solutions that are rapidly advancing, especially in the context of Japan. Project Background: The future of AV on the main roads seems stunted, which has propelled the development of semi-autonomous vehicles and remotely driven taxi services. It’s easy to speculate how a world with on-demand vehicles would benefit long-distance travels to and from rural areas and less mobile populations. But, imagine entering a car without a driver, ferrying you on a journey that could last a few hours — what would you do if you forgot to turn off the lights, or left your gift at home? Will there be geo-fencing mechanisms to control where the car goes — and how fast it goes — when you hand over the wheels of your car to your remote driver? What if you need to make a pitstop on the way? Workshop Objective and Outputs: This workshop aimed to spark a conversation around the larger questions and human implications regarding a world of semi-autonomous vehicles powered by remote driving, we set about to create a tangible artefact from the near future of the self-driving car. Leveraging the format of a Quick Start Guide and using a careful curation of design tools to guide the process of co-creation, we could get people to embody the experience of being remote drivers and passengers and observe their emergent behaviours in this hypothetical future scenario. The workshop goes beyond testing an abstract hypothesis but rather embraces the morphology of ideas and feedback loops. Enquire on design workshop facilitation |