the hidden motives of automobility

1. "AvD. We'll always find a way" The Institute for Traffic Sociology at AvD and its work TU München June 21, 2009 Alfred Fuhr

2. "AvD. We'll always find a way" We are constantly confronted with bad news about traffic

3. "AvD. We'll always find a way" We are constantly confronted with bad news about traffic

4. "AvD. We'll always find a way" We are constantly confronted with traffic jam solutions

5. "AvD. We'll always find a way" A new traffic jam phenomenon in Germany, and a form of mobility which has nothing to do with moving from A to B

6. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Early traffic science: measuring drivers' behaviour

7. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Homo sapiens and the love affair with his car

8. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Media comments about traffic, about trends & paradoxes Traffic sociologists at work

10. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Information agency for clients and partners Institute for Traffic sociology Some of our publications:

11. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Institute for Traffic sociology collecting & evaluating data for studies on traffic, technology and target group behaviour user-oriented sociological research studies, statistics & evaluations reconstructions of motives: Automobile Habitus understanding customers' strategies

12. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Traffic sociology and medicine

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14. "AvD. We'll always find a way" The role of AvD has changed over the years

15. "AvD. We'll always find a way" We organize vintage car races and other events

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17. "AvD. We'll always find a way" The chauffeur licence first issued by AvD was the forerunner of our modern drivers licences

18. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Accidents have always been a normal hazard for drivers postcard printed for his survivors

19. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Nowhere has the car had a more profound impact than in the United States, where the modern system of automobility was pioneered

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21. "AvD. We'll always find a way" the struggle between tough guys and pretty boys

22. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Nowhere has the car had a more profound impact than in the United States, where the modern system of automobility was pioneered

23. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Nowhere has the car had a more profound impact than in the United States, where the modern system of automobility was pioneered

24. "AvD. We'll always find a way" the struggle between tough guys and pretty boys

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26. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Risk assessment Ulrich Beck: Risk assesment cannot be scruitinised in isolation by just one discipline; it cannot be developed and pinned down by just one set of rationality Risk assesment is a symbiosis that has not yet been fully recognized! Pierre Bourdieu: Researcher takes on the perspectives of his research subject as well as that of the observer. Some basic theories used in traffic sociology Habitus combines: the objective study of the world with reflexive knowledge of the subject(s) of the study

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28. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Mao Tse Tung

29. "AvD. We'll always find a way" An ambivalence between fascination and disgust has accompanied the motor car from is early days to our time

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31. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Automobility is a human evolutionary strategy. Its symbol has evolved from a fiction of "divine horseless carriages" to the car

32. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Automobility is a human evolutionary strategy. Its symbol has evolved from a fiction of "divine horseless carriages" to the modern "connected" car

33. "AvD. We'll always find a way" SENSO CAR (Rinspeed)

34. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Toyota pod passenger cabin recognises how you feel today

35. "AvD. We'll always find a way" Risky traffic communication between two men and a woman