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"I'm strictly an ivory-tower person. I can explain things but I can't do things."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Robobus | ||
| An autonomous vehicle for picking up some number of passengers. |
| He was over on Wilder Way, at a bus stop.
"May I be of service?" A robobus had just rolled up to the curb. It was one of the smallest— a three-seater— but even at that, Jim almost took to his heels again before he realized that the vehicle was making no hostile move, but merely standing and waiting, in the time-honored manner of all robobuses. "Why, yes," he said craftily. He hesitated and then got in. "Duschane and Pierce." "Yes, sir." The minibus closed its doors and rolled on in blissful ignorance, clicking the milage off on its meter. Jim chortled internally. He had had no plan until the bus had come up to him — after all, he was pretty isolated out in the suburbs... |
| Technovelgy from Robots Are Nice?,
by Gordon R. Dickson. Published by Galaxy in 1957 Additional resources -
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Compare to the autobus from Tidal Moon, by Stanley G. and Helen Weinbaum, published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1938.
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