Autonomous Vehicle

A term coined by economist and futurist Karl Smith to refer to cars, trucks, heavy construction equipment light duty "wheeled drones" which operate without guidance from a human operator within or outside of the vehicle.

The term driverless cars will one day sound as anachronistic as horse lessons carriage. I suggest Autonomous Vehicle as it not only refers to all classes of vehicles but can and will be easily shortened to AV.

by jls822! September 24, 2016

Protocol-autonomous-yet-liquidity-entangled

A state where a blockchain or decentralized network remains sovereign in its code and consensus rules but is economically bound to traditional financial systems through ETFs, custodial holdings, and institutional liquidity cycles.
It’s free by design — yet dances to Wall Street’s rhythm.

Bitcoin’s protocol is decentralized, but its price moves with the Nasdaq — it’s protocol-autonomous-yet-liquidity-entangled.

by Codex Δ October 22, 2025

battery autonomous future

The trend in recent "innovations" where the main focus is powering something with a battery (usually a large lithium-ion battery), turning something into an autonomous pod, or a combination of both. The thing that's being innovated usually works better without a battery or operated by a human being. Coined by Justin Rozniak on the Well There's Your Problem podcast.

"dude, did you hear about the new thing Elon Musk came up with? He's going to move people underground using battery-powered autonomous pods!"

"Bro istg we're heading into the battery autonomous future'

by theryrover360 April 3, 2024

North America Autonomous Zone

North America Autonomous Zone, also North American Autonomous Zone and shortened as NAAZ, is the name of a fictional country and a meme where it's basically a North American version of Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) that includes the whole USA and Canada, the government of North America Autonomous Zone would basically be similar to CHAZ, but having a Central Committee to take care of the country and it would use of anarcho-imperialism and woke imperialism in order to defeat NATO and the West and turn all NATO countries, Western countries and Latin American countries into anarchist such as North America Autonomous Zone would be. The economics of NAAZ would basically be Bookchin Communalism united with Anarcho-Syndicalism. NAAZ is well known for its support to LGBT Rights, Otherkin Rights, Supernatural Rights, Freedom of Supernaturality, Sapient Equalism and Bioequalism.

"The North America Autonomous Zone is a meme about CHAZ that would basically be if CHAZ decided to be revolutionary and spread their revolution over the whole North America, and spread it to Europe and Latin America and lead into the creation of the World Autonomous Zone (WAZ), also Global Autonomous Zone (GAZ) or Earth Autonomous Zone (EAZ)."

by Full Monteirism July 6, 2021