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Sally
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This story was first published in Fantastic (May-June 1953 issue), by Isaac Asimov, and republished in the September 1965 issue. Self-driving cars are taken care of by an ex-chauffeur after they retire.Jacob Folkers ("Jake") used to work as a chauffeur when autos, self-driving cars, began commercial success. Initially he disliked the Job-Stealing Robot, but he's grown fond enough that he manages a retirement home for the Autos. He calls it the Farm for Retired Automobiles, and Raymond Gellhorn has a business proposal for him."Sally" was republished a dozen times; Dodici Volte Domani (1964), Urania (issue #469, August 1967), Time Untamed (1967), Nightfall and Other Stories (1969), The Best From Fantastic (1973), Sirius (issue #17, November 1977), The Complete Robot (1982), Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!: An Anthology of Robot and Computer Stories (1983), Robot Dreams (1986), Robots (1989), The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990), and The Asimov Chronicles Fifty Years Of Isaac Asimov (1990). | |
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Three Laws-Compliant: The Automated Automobiles operate with positronic brains, so it is implied that they have the same Three Laws as any other Asmovian robot. However, messing with the positronic brain as severely as Gellhorn did is implied to short-circuit the rules, as a self-driving car that he modified killed him. | |
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Job-Stealing Robot: Jacob Folkers was a chauffeur, but self-driving cars, like the titular Sally, eliminate his job entirely. Fortunately, his current employer irrationally refuses to trust the machine and keeps Jake around to clean and repair the car. | |
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Artificial Intelligence: In this story, positronic brains are used to make cars self-driving and human-smart. They have their own language and understand English well enough to laugh at ridiculous ideas. | |
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In-Series Nickname: Matthew, the first of the Automated Automobiles to live on the Farm, used to be known as a Mat-O-Mot. After taking care of it for years, Jake began to think of him as Matthew. He then started to name each of the cars that retired at the Farm. | |
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Consequence Combo: Jacob Folkers, who runs a Farm for Retired Automobiles, is offered a large sum of money for removing twenty-five positronic brains used to make self-driving cars. If he refuses, all fifty-one brains will be removed from the cars and he will get nothing. | |
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Brain Transplant: Gellhorn's Get-Rich-Quick Scheme involves taking the positronic brains from "retired" Automated Automobiles and putting them into brand-new bodies, forcing them back to work. | |
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Secondary Character Title: Sally is Jake's favorite self-driving car, but he's the viewpoint protagonist and the one who changes over the course of the story. | |
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Turned Against Their Masters | |
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Turned Against Their Masters: After the climax, Jake is concerned that the self-aware and self-driving cars are planning to revolt against humanity. | |
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Character Narrator: The story is told from the first-person perspective of Jacob Folkers, who is the manager of a Farm for Retired Automobiles. | |
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Silly Will | |
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Silly Will: In the Back Story, the rich Samson Harridge decides to leave his entire estate to his car after his death. While the newspapers mocked it at first, sending your Automated Automobiles to Farm for Retired Automobiles after you died became almost normal. The people who didn't tended to have children or grandchildren who would take care of it. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: This story, published in 1953, anticipated commercial self-driving cars in 2015. The story itself takes place around 2057; Sally is a 2045 convertible that had been at the Farm for five years. | |
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Get-Rich-Quick Scheme | |
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Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Gellhorn's scheme involves taking the positronic brains from "retired" Automated Automobiles and putting them into brand-new bodies, forcing them back to work. The profit for each car would be tens of thousands of dollars. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: Gellhorn uses a bus made from a discarded chassis and some brain he found, rigging them together with duct tape and solder. The bus is therefore in a state of constant pain, so once it gets out of control, the results are... not pleasant for Gellhorn. | |
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