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user-inactivated  ·  3183 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google’s self-driving cars begin exploring the streets of Austin, Texas

Whatever it is, I hope they lift it out of science fiction. I suppose 'droid' is too prosaic.



briandmyers  ·  3183 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My proposal - Otto or ottocar. 'Car' then comes to mean a manual car, and 'Otto' comes to mean a self driving car.

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b_b  ·  3183 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm pretty sure Lucasfilm has a TM on Droid, so that's a nonstarter. Not sure how true it is, but I was once told that the Droid phone pays a licence fee for the name.

Edit: http://priceonomics.com/lucasfilm-owns-all-of-your-droids/

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user-inactivated  ·  3183 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, duh. Well, someone smarter than me will think of something.

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