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"I've come across more and more people who've actually tried reading science fiction and can't make it make sense."
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| Robot Taxi | ||
| A taxicab with a robotic driver. |
| The sedative calmed him down a trifle; he emerged and flagged down a robot taxi.
"Main Directorate building," he told the driver. "And take your time." "All right, sir or madam," the MacMillan robot answered, adding, "Whatever you say." MacMillans weren't capable of fine discriminations. |
| Technovelgy from Solar Lottery,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books in 1955 Additional resources -
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From Quarry (1956) by Kenneth Bulmer:
See variations on this idea in Larry Niven's bubble cars from World out of Time (1976) or the tin cabbie from James Blish's 1957 novel Cities in Flight. A more recent take can be found in Alan Dean Foster's 2006 novel Sagramanda; see the automated taxi.
On the street again, they peered cautiously uptown. A single robot taxi, cruising in the hope of fares long since dead, passed on silent tires. Beyond it, at the intersection, they saw a streetcar stop, ding its bell, and go on.
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