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In David Walton’s novel Three Laws Lethal, Naomi programs some of these devices that eventually develop murderous tendencies. One of these devices kills Anna’s child instead of a woodpecker, as told through a series of footnotes from a scientific paper on these devices, (-5[1])in the Sarah Gailey story “STET”. Some of these devices gang up to murder Raymond Gellhorn at the end of an Asimov story that unusually ignores the (15[1])three laws; in that story, Jake Folkers runs a farm that takes care of “retired” kinds of these devices, including one he names Sally. Six survivors hole up in a diner as these devices outside try to kill them in a story from the collection Night Shift that was adapted into the only film directed by (*) Stephen King. John Carpenter directed another Stephen King adaptation about a killer one of these devices (10[1])named Christine. (10[1])For 10 points, name these devices that, in real life, use Lidar (“LYE-dar”) technology to avoid accidents. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: self-driving cars [accept specific models of cars; accept equivalents like automobiles; accept trucks or buses; prompt on “vehicles” but accept autonomous vehicles] (The only film directed by Stephen King is Maximum Overdrive, based on his story “Trucks”.)
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