Mobilität zwischen gesellschaftlicher Modernisierung, sozialer Teilhabe und Klimawandel. Eine Einleitung

The car has lost its outstanding socially integrative role and the privileges granted to the private car in transport policy and the tax benefits appear anachronistic. New political adjustments and innovative entrepreneurial plans are needed to meet the changed demand for physical mobility. The question is how to create a “modernisation pact” that understands the technological options as an opportunity. The alternative to the car is the “better car”: it is automatically driven, it no longer belongs to anyone, it is sustainable and it brings people together again. The scale of radicality of Automated Driving can be seen in the paradigm shift from “driving to being driven.” Why should people own a car, if in the future it will no longer navigate independently but will be controlled by algorithms and all desired transportation functions will be performed by “autonomous fleets”? Against this socio-political and technology-political background, a connection is drawn from the changes in the forms of life and work, to the formation of the actors in a new world of energy and transport and thus to the requirements for a proactive regulation of a platform-based mobility of the future.