1. Changing vehicles or transforming the mobility system?

For any engineer, it's important to have some reference points in the vast field of analysis of the phenomena and processes of technological and societal change. Three main points are addressed here, to give a clearer idea of the proposed approach to sustainable transition.

First of all, let's specify that the term "technology" here refers either to a technological object (a car, for example) or to a technological solution (a mobility system, for example) which comprises both the technological object and what makes it operational (such as road infrastructures, driving rules, etc.). ...