We should think of automative tech as a driving force in our lives as we move forward in the technological age. Technologies with varying levels of intrusion and precarity are springing up constantly, reshaping labor, our relationships, our desires, our social norms and even our being. Decades of accelerated technological development have rendered us grasping for institutions and frameworks for regulating and thinking about these technologies, but the continued advent of automative technologies keeps making our heads spin.
