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"There's a tendency to think that maybe if we can just throw enough hardware at the AI problem, then evolution can take care of the rest. Certainly that's how God went about making us."
- Rudy Rucker

Autonomous Car Intercommunication  
  Automatic cars talk to each other about everything.  

My cars talk to one another. I have no doubt about it anymore. It's as though they've gained confidence; as though they're not bothering to keep it secret anymore. Their engines rattle and knock continuously.


(Automatobile from 'Sally' by Isaac Asimov)

And they don't talk among themselves only. They talk to the cars and buses that come into the Farm on business. How long have they been doing that?

Technovelgy from Sally, by Isaac Asimov.
Published by Fantastic in 1953
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Compare to Compare to mentanical communication from The Mentanicals (1934) by Francis Flagg and the TBR (Talk Between Robots) Circuit from The Midas Plague (1954) by Frederik Pohl.

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