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"All fiction is propaganda, and the fiction we like is the propaganda we believe in, and the fiction we don't like is the propaganda we don't believe in."
- Samuel R. Delany

Robot Bus  
  An autonomous vehicle to transport groups of people.  

Buses without drivers moved close to the curb and stopped at intervals. The lamp posts gave a different sort of light...

He hopped one of the robot buses when it stopped and wanted a cigarette. He was inactive for the first time since his escape, but his nerves weren’t.

Nobody in the bus was smoking. He hadn’t seen anybody smoking.

Technovelgy from The Little Things, by Henry Kuttner.
Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1946
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Compare to the automatobus from Sally (1953) by Isaac Asimov and robotic conductor from Paycheck (1953) by Philip K. Dick.

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