Robotaxis create serious problems in big, dense cities, but they’d be a godsend in small towns and rural areas—huge swaths of America that the AV industry is ignoring.

My latest, in Bloomberg (gift link) 🧵

How are automated vehicles governed, and how should they be governed? In this article, I analyse Norway's regulatory approach and conclude that it is well-intentioned but the regulation is ill-equipped for realising these intentions.

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How are automated vehicles governed, and how should they be governed? In this article, I analyse Norway's regulatory approach and conclude that it is well-intentioned but the regulation is ill-equipped for realising these intentions.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s not everyday one’s paper is accompanied by a painting from the Dutch Golden Age, but here we are. In the paper, we call for normative commitments which are founded on something more than mere opposition towards the hegemony. While harder, we suspect that such commitments are more substantial.

Alle snakkar om sosial aksept, men kva er det eigentleg? I denne teksten hjå @energiogklima.no argumenterer Arild Ohren og eg for at me må lyfte blikket opp frå einskilde teknologiar om me ønskjer å forstå rammene for sosial aksept.

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New paper out on #CCS in waste incineration. With expected large increases in waste incineration for the coming decades, we urgently need to address emissions from #waste-to-energy plants. 🏭
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In his 1949 essay, Thinking like a mountain, Aldo Leopold related how dying wolves and starving deer helped him understand nature's order. In this essay, I ask what it means to think like a road, and provide some methodological pointers for operationalising this otherwise abstract notion.

Ah, history: In 2000, when the Labour and Conservative parties voted to support gas power in Norway, a key figure in a Norwegian E-NGO shouted “You’re banished by the environmental movement for ten years! You are international CO2 bandits, we will fight you with any means necessary!" at them.

Shout-out to Tore Berge for correctly diagnosing the problems of electric vehicles back in '95: “The discussion regarding EVs corrupts the whole debate about the problems of car traffic. We need new policies for area use and traffic reduction.”

Car-free cities or automated vehicles? I discuss how proponents of these two futures try realising part of their desired future in the present day, as to promote its future actualisation. Successful prefiguration requires employing means that reflect – but are distinct from – the desired ends.