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"...in fifty years, do you believe that people will be recognizably human?"
- Greg Bear
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| Automatobus | ||
| An autonomous or self-driving bus seating a number of people. |
| "Now you listen to me." I raised my voice because I was just too mad to be polite anymore. "When you turn off Sally's motor, you hurt her. How would you like to be kicked unconscious? That's what you do to Sally, when you turn her off." "You're exaggerating, Jake. The automatobuses get turned off every night." |
| Technovelgy from Sally,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Fantastic in 1953 Additional resources -
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Compare to the autobus from Tidal Moon (1938) by Stanley G. and Helen Weinbaum, the robotic conductor from Philip K. Dick's 1953 short story Paycheck and the robus from Terror in the Stars (1955) by John A. Sentry.
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