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Special Issue: Socio-cultural Dimensions of Mobility Transitions to Come

Promise of the obsolete: expectations for and experiments with self-driving vehicles in Norway

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Pages 37-47 | Received 30 Sep 2019, Accepted 28 Apr 2020, Published online: 05 Jun 2020

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