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"You have to budget the number of fuzzy rules you use to control a system. It turns out, you can state the optimality principle in three words: 'patch the bumps.'"
- Bart Kosko

Electrotruck  
  An autonomous, electric truck.  

As he watched, [the spacecraft] entered its cradle and was wheeled off toward the waiting electrotrucks. Unloading began immediately; the trucks gulped packages and scurried like beetles toward the warehouses.
Technovelgy from The Corkscrew of Space, by Poul Anderson.
Published by Galaxy in 1956
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Compare to the tractatruck from The Moon is Hell (1950) by John Campbell, the planetruck from The Slave Ship to Andrigo (1951) by Ross Rocklynne and the automatic truck from Mechnocracy (1932) by Miles J. Breurer.

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  - Tesla Semi 'Electrotruck' Unveiled
  - Swedes Premiere T-Pod Driverless Electric Truck
  - China's Self-Driving Electric Trucks Are Poul Anderson's Electrotrucks

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