Article ID: CBB229059967

Regulating Innovation: Utility vs. Leisure in Swedish Moped History, 1952–1961 (July 2020)

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This article investigates the attempts to regulate innovation in Sweden’s road traffic system, specifically small, two-wheeled motorized vehicles or mopeds. Regulators wanted to establish a definition of the moped as a utility vehicle. Moped users and producers challenged their intentions, envisioning the moped as a vehicle for leisure. Our close reading of artefacts allows us to trace the evolution of moped technology and to conceptualize innovation in the moped niche. Situating moped innovation within the context of regulatory attempts and social change, we show how the imposition of technical requirements failed to regulate specific usage of a consumer technology. More broadly, the case study shows how users together with the producers find ways to innovate and shape technologies for their own purposes.

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Authors & Contributors
Cool, Alison
Andrey Vozyanov
Norman W. Garrick
Walker, Mark Edwin
Arlen, Gary
Danika Bellamy-Sankar
Concepts
Regulation
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Land transportation
Technology and government
Mobility
Public policy
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Sweden
Europe
California (U.S.)
Ukraine
Romania
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
United States Federal Communications Commission
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