The Burden of Risk: Who Dies Because of Cars?

This article argues that those interested in social policy should by definition be interested in issues of transport policy. It analyses data on road traffic fatalities and suggests, in the light of this evidence, that those who benefit least from the motor vehicle seem disproportionately likely, given their relative exposure to the risk, to die in road traffic accidents.     

‘Car Talk’: automobility and Chinese international students in Michigan

The apparent conspicuous consumption of luxury vehicles by Chinese international students attending a public Michigan University provides an opportunity to examine the convergence of different ideas about automobility. Upwardly mobile Chinese families send their children to Michigan, a state with a tradition of auto-production, for educational opportunities not available in China. The resulting ‘car talk’ of local residents about Chinese students and their cars speaks to broader anxieties about Michigan’s shifting relationship to the global economy. However, the paper focuses on the meanings of auto-owning created by Chinese students who make decisions about the purchase and use of their autos within a social world oriented primarily to other Chinese students and societal ideas about auto-owning circulating among friends, family and society in China. For Chinese students, car owning encompasses meanings of status, safety and sociability that are created within the context of study abroad.     

The contingent futures of the mobile present: automation as possibility

In this article we outline and demonstrate a design anthropological approach to investigating automated mobile futures as a processual opening up of possibilities, rather than as a process of technological innovation. To undertake this we investigate the example of how the car-smartphone relationship is configuring in the contingent circumstances of the mobile present and the implications of this for automated mobile futures. Our discussion is set in the context of the growing possibility that automonous driving (AD) features are increasingly part of everyday mobilities (even if unequally distributed globally) and in which personal mobile smart technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) will exist in some form and will interface with humans and be interoperable with other technologies. In developing this we draw on ethnographic understandings of how people live with the possibilities afforded by technologies in everyday life.     

功能属性和品牌个性对购买决策的影响——以家用轿车行业为例

以两个中档轿车品牌——帕萨特和马自达6为例,收集7个城市消费者的1 440份调查问卷,采用结构方程模型实证研究功能属性、品牌个性和品牌资产对消费者购买汽车决策的影响。研究发现:（1）功能属性越强,消费者感知的品牌资产越高;（2）功能属性和品牌个性对购买决策的作用,完全被品牌资产中介;（3）消费者感知的品牌资产越高,购买意愿就越强;（4）品牌个性对于品牌资产的影响因品牌不同而存在差异。     

人机工程学在汽车造型设计中的应用

通过研究汽车外观造型的演变历史,从人机工程学角度探讨其对汽车外观设计的影响,并归纳其在设计中的具体应用,主要表现在如何满足人体尺寸要求和视野要求上。为设计师在创意的时候既符合人机工程学的要求又兼顾美学标准的设计提供参考依据。     

小汽车与城市和谐交通

小汽车在城市和谐交通建设中地位十分重要。小汽车与城市其他交通工具协调发展，与城市道路协调发展，与交通管理协调发展，可以减少小汽车给城市交通带来的不和谐，最大限度地发挥小汽车的优势，促进城市和谐交通建设。     

无人驾驶汽车的相关法律问题及其对策

伴随着人工智能技术的迅猛发展,无人驾驶汽车时代正悄然而至。无人驾驶汽车的应用在给人们带来便捷的同时,也可能引发安全隐患。近年来,各国不仅加紧推动和扶持相关技术发展,也在加快出台无人驾驶汽车法律法规。相比较而言,中国针对无人驾驶汽车虽然出台了一些规范性文件,但是在相关法律法规方面仍然处于空白状态。而无人驾驶汽车引发的诸多问题,对中国现有法律框架下的《道路交通安全法》《产品质量法》《保险法》等相关法律已经提出挑战,亟须更新相关法律规定。在兼顾促进行业发展、推动技术进步和保障相关人员合法权益的原则之下,应当制定针对无人驾驶汽车道路交通管理的相关规则,建立无人驾驶汽车专门服务机构,明确无人驾驶汽车道路交通事故的责任主体、责任归属以及执法主体,可以在交通管理机构内部建立专门的技术评定机构,提供无人驾驶汽车道路交通事故的技术评定;在保险制度方面,应更新现有的强制责任保险,扩大受益主体,调整赔偿比例,提升赔偿金额,可推行车内人员伤害保险制度,创设设计者责任险新险种,从而有利于更加及时高效地对相关人员的合法权益进行救济。     

Play streets: women,children and the problem of urban traffic, 1930–1970

This article explores women’s participation in campaigns for urban play streets in England c.1930–1970. Concentrating on activities in ‘traditional’ terraced streets, it argues that working-class street sociability was strongly connected to children’s play and that rising levels of traffic were beginning to threaten this before the Second World War, feeding growing anxieties over the high rate of road accidents to children. One response to this from the 1930s was a series of local experiments aimed at separating traffic from children (a radical alternative to the more usual response of keeping children away from traffic) through the creation of ‘play streets’, closed to traffic for much of the day. The idea was taken up by national government and became popular in post-war decades, often due to the efforts of local women to defend the public life of their communities. The growing controversy over the introduction and maintenance of play streets from the 1960s shows women struggling to maintain traditional street sociability against the gathering power of business interests and rising car ownership in the period.     

中国发展家用轿车也应该“两条腿走路”——关于中国优先发展农村汽车化战略之思考

指出轿车走向大众化消费为中国经济和社会发展提供了又一次重要战略机遇。在分析我国农村发展家用轿车的可行性和必要性后,提出了在发展家用轿车上,我国同样可以借鉴"农村包围城市"的成功经验,并通过优先实施农村汽车化战略,达到缩小城乡差别,加速农业机械化和城市化进程,从而实现十六大提出的全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标的思想,并简要阐述了实施策略。     

中国能否克隆美国的汽车文化——关于中国进入家用轿车时代的思考

中国的家庭轿车时代正在降临。围绕着如何发展中国的汽车文化这一热点问题 ,可谓众说纷纭。通过对家用轿车发展史的解读 ,对中国和美国在制度、观念文化和自然状况上的差异分析 ,以及汽车对人类和环境的负效应、人类环保意识等问题的探究 ,提出了中国不能克隆美国的汽车文化的观点