Matthew Crawford spoke with BBC Radio 4 Today presenter Justin Webb for a February 6 2023 segment. Titled “Driverless cars: a loss of human autonomy?” the interview explored our tech future and its potential consequences. In the interview, Crawford explains:
I think you can regard the push for driverless cars and automation generally as part of this wider kind of development in which the demands of skill and competence give way to a promise of safety and convenience and then of course our skills atrophy from lack of use… we’re nudged ever further into kind of passivity and dependence on various fronts — and I have to think that that’s politically significant.