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| Self-Cleaning Autonomous Car | ||
| An automatic vehicle that keeps itself clean. |
Now you're talking - Elon Musk, take note. Especially those panoramic roof windows.
| I was grinning. I couldn't help it. Sally was so clean, it almost hurt. Some insect must have died on her windshield or one speck of dust too many had landed, so she was going to work. A little tube protruded and spurted Tergosol over the glass. It spread quickly over the silicone surface film and squeejees snapped into place instantly, passing over the windshield and forcing the. water into the little channel that led it, dripping, down to the ground. Not a speck of water got onto her glistening apple-green hood. Squeejee and detergent tube snapped back into place and disappeared. Gellhorn said, "I never saw an automatic do that." "I guess not," I said. "I fixed that up specially on our cars. They're clean. They're always scrubbing their glass. They like it. I've even got Sally fixed up with wax jets. She polishes herself every night till you can see your face in any part of her and shave by it. If I can scrape up the money, I'd be putting it on the rest of the girls. Convertibles are very vain." |
| Technovelgy from Sally,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Fantastic in 1953 Additional resources -
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Compare to window-cleaning robots from Rendezvous with Rama (1972) by Arthur C. Clarke.
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