In between working out how the Muirhead Tower lifts work; how to record lectures; and testing which is the quickest place to get a salad at lunchtime (it’s the library, by the way), I have been co-editing a book on governing the smart mobility transition to be published with Emerald in February. The book argues that as we are in the early stages of adoption of various smart mobility innovations (automated vehicles and the like) we therefore have an important window of opportunity to think about how, and to what end, these transitions can be steered.