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> can we please call them auto-autos? Proposal accepted.

• carapace 2y ago
  Thank you. :)
  • Ylpertnodi 2y ago
    Literally 'self-selfs' in some languages. 'Automobile' is a clue.
    • carapace 2y ago
      In English too. :) (The first "auto-" is self-moving as contrasted with the cart that needed an external motive (horse etc.), then the second "auto-" is self-directing with sensors and feedback systems forming a crude "mind" with a "self image" (all efficient regulators contain a model of themselves[1]). A self-motile and self-guided machine is an auto-auto-mobile. I love it.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Regulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Regulator