Hack night: Baby, you can drive my car
Using the topic of the self-driving car as a starting point, Waag Society and Hackers & Designers invite you to explore the changing role of technology in our civic society. In a series of events, we'll investigate what's behind the self-driving car; get acquainted with sensors; and discuss themes surrounding this topic with ethicists, technologists, artists, and policy makers.
Using technical and societal developments in and around the self-driving car, we'll engage in a number of collective thought experiments challenging and critically reflecting on the relationship and dependencies between technological innovation and societal developments. How are the technologies we rely on constructed? What dilemmas do we encounter during the development of a self-driving vehicle? How much control should we cede to technology? What types of moral frameworks should we agree upon? These are some of the questions we, along with the audience, will grapple with and use to discuss alternatives to given solutions.
Technology, as a vastly influential force in our daily lives, shapes our interactions with public spaces and each other; with policy making; and contributes to our exclusion of parts of society. Developers and designers play a key role in shaping our cohabitation. Things like the OV chip card, care robots, DigiD, the self-driving car, and code determines our behaviour and the way we interact with each other. Are developments like these unstoppable? Uncontrollable? Let’s find out!
- 1 Workshop - Self-driving Toy Car – Hack Night – 1st of March – Frascati 3 – 20:00/23:00
Technology can be taken apart and put back together in unexpected ways. During this hands-on workshop, Anja, Heerko, James, and Selby (of Hackers & Designers) will show you what's going on inside a toy car, how to hack the remote control, and how to make the car follow a line on its own! We'll work in small groups with sensors, arduino, and soldering irons.
- 2 Talkshow - Baby, can you drive my car? – 20th of May – Frascati 1
We'll host a Talk Show about the self-driving car and the ethical questions that come with independently driving vehicles.
