Conclusion

This study engages with the phenomenon of autonomous driving. It seeks to contribute to the recent interest in applying care as an analytical lens to the social studies of technology (Both and Cohn 2017; Cohn 2013; Denis and Pontille 2015; Mol et al. 2010; Singleton 2010). It takes the vulnerability and fragility of the visions and demonstrators as a point of departure. The study describes and analyzes the various ways of sustaining autonomous driving symbolically and materially within a university research project. It demonstrates that by maintaining the project—a sociotechnical assemblage of roboticists, visionary stories, and technological artifacts—its