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The Backstory Of ANIMech Technologies and the Anthro-Cars
10 years ago
Ever wondered what happened in my alt universe to make these anthro cars exist like they do? Well I've been thinking a lot about that, and now I offer you a rough draft of my prologue to the anthro car universe! Porn is always better when it has a well defined reason for existence. ;)
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It's the near future, in an alternate universe. An emerging automation and robotics corporation, a joint company based partly in America and partly in Japan called ANIMechtronics Technologies Corp. breaks new ground in the automobile industry by developing the first vehicles running purely on artificial intelligence and possessing basic anthropomorphic transformation abilities. (this is based on the real-world Google self-driving car, as well as Japanese cars I've seen being made that actually have expression changing faces on their front-ends to convey driver state)
After a slow start, the popularity soon starts to catch on, primarily in the more experimental Japan. Soon after, hoping to latch onto the bandwagon, Toyota and Honda start several collaborative efforts with ANIMech to create several anthro-versions of their popular car brands (the Prius and Accord to name a few) ANIMech plays it smart and builds the first batch of anthro-Hondas and Toyotas to be sold at a basic steal of a price, only a few hundred more then a standard car making the anthro-version more of a 'fully loaded' version of the original car and thus giving unsure buyers more confidence and willingness to buy. The plan works in their favor, and anthro cars start to take to the roads in Japan.
The American branch of ANIMech takes after it's foreign partner's proven strategy. A low number of Japanese prototype import anthro-cars are brought over to the US and take to the roads, spurring interest and even a little controversy over the new seemingly self-aware cars. Though as history has shown, controversy sells, and following in Japan's footsteps, ANIMech USA convinces several American car brands like Ford and Chevy to offer a few ANIMech anthro-car versions of their cars using the same low-cost incentives to attract buyers. The idea being that given some time and luck, the number of low-cost anthro-cars sold will outweigh the lost money. Progress is slower in the US, many people weiry of this strange new Japanese craze, but the number of anthro-Fords and Chevy's on American roads slowly grows more and more as time goes by.
Jumping a few years ahead and business is booming, on the Asian side of things, Toyota and Honda are selling more anthro-versions of their cars then regular versions. The anthropomorphic abilities get more advanced as newer and more advanced versions of the cars are released. This leads to even a wider range of car models having anthro-optional versions. In both nations, popularity is spurred even more by the 'trendy' factor. Like having the newest Iphone, owning an anthro-car becomes the 'cool thing' and a status symbol. More American car companies join in like Cadillac and and GM hoping to catch onto the craize and partly out of fear of lost sales since regular non-anthro car sales are the lowest they've ever been. It isn't clear now, but ANIMech themselves are gaining power, with all their hands in these manufacturer's pockets pulling the strings.
More years ahead and anthro-cars are becoming the norm. Marketed as 'not just a car but part of the family.' These sentient cars, now with AI so advanced that it's basically not even artificial any longer. People can no longer imagine going back to a regular car, ANIMechatronics Corporation has grown into top 10 wealthy conglomerate, automotive manufactures are basically reduced to powerless pawns. Unable to produce their own cars seeing as the market has dried up for non-sentient cars, and ANIMech holding the blueprints and secret AI code at their central headquarters, or in the heads of their self-appointed executives stationed at the plants, soon these manufactures are silently and without much resistance, merged with ANIMech, existing in brand name only..
Further years later, the option for self-replicating cars comes into existence. The reproductive components become standard design for most cars, but it's up to the customer buying to decide weather to let their car be made sexually active and reproductive. ANIMech under the shell forms of their absorbed manufactures (Ford, Chevy, Toyota, ect) offer incentives to allow such a thing. Such as cash-refunds to owners who's cars have litters of babies, if brought into the dealerships to be raised and sold by them, the dealerships offer some generous cash rewards. For owners of male cars receive cash refunds for their car's semen, the infamous 'overfilled balls syndrome' requiring the owner to milk or have their male car milked by the dealership after a prolonged time without sex. Car semen is full of sophisticated nanobot 'sperm' that can be recycled and reprogrammed for use in new cars. Owners of male cars are also guaranteed the right to at least half the litter their cars have with another car. Though they may have to pay for any inconvenience brought to the other owner, having to deal with their car being pregnant.
And so it was, anthro-cars became the new norm, and common-place in every family!
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It's the near future, in an alternate universe. An emerging automation and robotics corporation, a joint company based partly in America and partly in Japan called ANIMechtronics Technologies Corp. breaks new ground in the automobile industry by developing the first vehicles running purely on artificial intelligence and possessing basic anthropomorphic transformation abilities. (this is based on the real-world Google self-driving car, as well as Japanese cars I've seen being made that actually have expression changing faces on their front-ends to convey driver state)
After a slow start, the popularity soon starts to catch on, primarily in the more experimental Japan. Soon after, hoping to latch onto the bandwagon, Toyota and Honda start several collaborative efforts with ANIMech to create several anthro-versions of their popular car brands (the Prius and Accord to name a few) ANIMech plays it smart and builds the first batch of anthro-Hondas and Toyotas to be sold at a basic steal of a price, only a few hundred more then a standard car making the anthro-version more of a 'fully loaded' version of the original car and thus giving unsure buyers more confidence and willingness to buy. The plan works in their favor, and anthro cars start to take to the roads in Japan.
The American branch of ANIMech takes after it's foreign partner's proven strategy. A low number of Japanese prototype import anthro-cars are brought over to the US and take to the roads, spurring interest and even a little controversy over the new seemingly self-aware cars. Though as history has shown, controversy sells, and following in Japan's footsteps, ANIMech USA convinces several American car brands like Ford and Chevy to offer a few ANIMech anthro-car versions of their cars using the same low-cost incentives to attract buyers. The idea being that given some time and luck, the number of low-cost anthro-cars sold will outweigh the lost money. Progress is slower in the US, many people weiry of this strange new Japanese craze, but the number of anthro-Fords and Chevy's on American roads slowly grows more and more as time goes by.
Jumping a few years ahead and business is booming, on the Asian side of things, Toyota and Honda are selling more anthro-versions of their cars then regular versions. The anthropomorphic abilities get more advanced as newer and more advanced versions of the cars are released. This leads to even a wider range of car models having anthro-optional versions. In both nations, popularity is spurred even more by the 'trendy' factor. Like having the newest Iphone, owning an anthro-car becomes the 'cool thing' and a status symbol. More American car companies join in like Cadillac and and GM hoping to catch onto the craize and partly out of fear of lost sales since regular non-anthro car sales are the lowest they've ever been. It isn't clear now, but ANIMech themselves are gaining power, with all their hands in these manufacturer's pockets pulling the strings.
More years ahead and anthro-cars are becoming the norm. Marketed as 'not just a car but part of the family.' These sentient cars, now with AI so advanced that it's basically not even artificial any longer. People can no longer imagine going back to a regular car, ANIMechatronics Corporation has grown into top 10 wealthy conglomerate, automotive manufactures are basically reduced to powerless pawns. Unable to produce their own cars seeing as the market has dried up for non-sentient cars, and ANIMech holding the blueprints and secret AI code at their central headquarters, or in the heads of their self-appointed executives stationed at the plants, soon these manufactures are silently and without much resistance, merged with ANIMech, existing in brand name only..
Further years later, the option for self-replicating cars comes into existence. The reproductive components become standard design for most cars, but it's up to the customer buying to decide weather to let their car be made sexually active and reproductive. ANIMech under the shell forms of their absorbed manufactures (Ford, Chevy, Toyota, ect) offer incentives to allow such a thing. Such as cash-refunds to owners who's cars have litters of babies, if brought into the dealerships to be raised and sold by them, the dealerships offer some generous cash rewards. For owners of male cars receive cash refunds for their car's semen, the infamous 'overfilled balls syndrome' requiring the owner to milk or have their male car milked by the dealership after a prolonged time without sex. Car semen is full of sophisticated nanobot 'sperm' that can be recycled and reprogrammed for use in new cars. Owners of male cars are also guaranteed the right to at least half the litter their cars have with another car. Though they may have to pay for any inconvenience brought to the other owner, having to deal with their car being pregnant.
And so it was, anthro-cars became the new norm, and common-place in every family!
Fleshing out the world of your characters is a lot of fun, and I hope you get into it more often. The relationships (as a whole and as individuals) between drivers and anthro-cars has always been on my mind when looking at your stuff, and not just in the sense of seeing humans involved in sexual misconduct with cars! What exactly goes into driving a sentient vehicle? Is it even driving anymore? Once your transportation becomes self-aware, what control does a human even have anymore, especially with a more self-assured, rebellious automobile, assuming that can actually be a thing to occur in a world of self-replicating, sapient vehicles. And, on a lighter note, what happens to people inside cars that need a break to get off all fours for a bit?
The day-to-day of your world here fascinates me probably more than the sex stuff at this point. And I hope that's not too crazy! :)
Well I'm not much into writing, that's why it's taken me so long to make THIS. Yeah I get what your saying, you wanna see more stuff about how humans/owners interact with their cars in daily life, how anthro cars interact with each other. I think that was you back on the Cindi and Ashley picture saying you wanted to see that more.
The anthro cars have a lot of freedom, no doubt. But they're still pretty subservient to their owners. They're all programmed with a basic overwhelming desire to want to serve their owners. It's not complete, and it can be resisted but it's hard... like a druggie trying to quit cold turkey. But honestly, most owners are nice enough that the cars don't feel the want to resist that much and probably aren't even aware of it. I think in a world with cars like that, humans would be more willing to naturally treat them nicely and like family. The only reason people don't do that now is because most people think cars are just lifeless hunks of metal that don't need love. But yeah, just look how crazy dog people are IRL.. dogs are only just barely human-like in intelligence and look how well MOST people treat them or even obsess over them.
In most cases if a family during those initial years, spent the extra money for an anthro-car over a standard car, it's because they WANTED to experience the extra companionship and friendship that would come from such a thing. Lonely bachelors, couples without kids, ect. So those that had anthro cars usually treated them well. And when the cars already have a subconscious desire to be helpful to their owners, AND are treated nicely and would probably want to just out of affection anyway.. well that'd make a pretty loyal car.
In four-wheeled drive mode, the owner still has an option to drive manually, btw. I don't know if a car would need a break from 4-wheeled driving. I'd think standing on 2 legs would be the more strainious way to stand honestly. It probably takes a lot of learned balance to stand on tire-feet lol.
It's not, and honestly I'd like to explore that more too.. it's just porn is so tempting. XD You're actually the first person I've told this to. But I've been thinking of making a comic playing in relation to the people who have sexual identity issues. You know, guys or girls who feel they're the wrong sex? I thought about making a short comic chronicling the story of a male Ford Focus named Chris who secretly feels he identifies as female. The comic would be him discussing it in the garage with the teenage daughter of his owners. Then him coming out to the whole family. The family supporting him, and then his sex change operation where he gets to be turned female. Which for an anthro-car is a total true transformation since the mechanical reproductive parts can be switched and installed universally. This would be a serious take on the issue though, not poking fun at it. Funny enough though, when it comes to the anthro cars it literally is a glitch. The baby car pup being born with the wrong gender programming installed into his head.
I couldn't tell you why the first thing I typically ponder is how things can go wrong. Never ever as far as a car wanting to kill or anything in that same vain, to be clear. More stuff like cars being mischievous or even accidentally misbehaving. That actually extends towards what you were talking about with loyalty, too. If a more confident, take-charge kind of car got paired up with a human that's on the opposite end of the spectrum, would they ever go against their desires to work towards their best interests? Drive to the gym instead of fast food between lunch and dinner? Act the wingman and make sure they don't miss out on the love of their life? The kind of stuff where in the moment the owner might be flustered and angry, but would be thanking their vehicles the rest of their lives potentially.
It's the sort of scenarios—flaws and arguments as well as playfulness and unabashed tenacity—that I associate with the cars being actually sapient beings over mere subservient, intelligent robots. Relationships that can have ups as well as downs without being destroyed. I'm not sure how contrary that runs against what you've put together.
As for needing a break, I was more thinking of something like the monotony of a country drive or the stress of bumper-to-bumper traffic and city driving. Even if they're built for it, I can't imagine it being too crazy that they'd never want a chance to stretch out or maybe rest in different positions. To be honest, I love the thought of envisioning people still winding up inside anthro-cars when they're being very un-car-like. It's one thing to explore the various new curves and bends of a car that's stretching their "legs." It's another to think about how that translates in their cabin to me, and how accommodating (or not!) they are to their passengers.
And, yes, this even applies to porn, of course XD. A very frequent pondering of mine is someone heavily driving a car with overfilled balls that's gotten incredibly horny and can't take it anymore. It'd get to the point where the driver doesn't even get a chance to exit the vehicle. Just gets to hold on while their vehicle takes a break to let off some steam... and other such stuff!
That's a really intriguing comic idea that I'd be interested in seeing. Or even just in writing. It's certainly much more serious than anything I'd come up with. My machinations obviously lean to looser and goofy scenarios like the hijinks of a driver and mischievous car over a road trip or something. But something else about your idea that I like is the opportunity to explore the mechanics of your anthro-characters in something outside of a sterile exposition piece. On a side note, I can't help but also start imagining the dickgirl equivalent of an anthrocar. >_>
The stuff you're talking about kinda makes me wonder if the dealerships would have a sort of match-making program so that owners get paired with cars that have a similar personality and they'd get along the best with. Or maybe getting an adult or used car, that was just a known and agreed upon risk you'd be taking. Maybe they'd allow a return period if the personalities clashed. I don't know why this is the first example that popped into my head. But like if you're an atheist, but then you go to a used car place and buy a car that grew up in a fundamentalist christian household.. XD lol can you imagine an owner and his car arguing over the existence of god? XD
I could see stuff like that being a good incentive for people to buy cars as babies or young pups. Not that I bet there wouldn't be people buying them anyway.. heck they're adorable as hell. But then they'd grow up with you and naturally kinda be more like you when they've grown up. The only downside is that you've gotta raise them and can't drive them till they get old enough.
Cars GET breaks though, in IRL they do! Hell cars are kinda like pets in that respect, they've got it easy as far as work is concerned. I mean there are on the job cars, like my mom for example drives Swann around because she does inspections around town. But Lilly for example, she gets to sleep from nightime to 4pm, drive me a few blocks to work, then lounge around for 6 more hours till I'm off again. Then we go cruising at night for the fun of it. Most cars usually get a lot of downtime in a parking lot to nap or relax. Now you could argue that work vehicles like the dumptruck for example, that they'd have to be given basic workers rights and get to go on break with the human workers. But that wouldn't be much of a problem really would it? Because if the workers and drivers are on break the vehicles aren't working either anyway.
Yeah, I could imagine there being safety failsafes in place to keep cars from going full anthro with people in their cabins.. like weight sensors in the seats so that the car can't 'transform' if anyone's sitting in them.
Uhhh I don't think an overfilled balls car would be drivable. His nuts would be dragging behind him. XD
The personalities topic is definitely an interesting one. I'm obviously more attracted to a little friction. It's certainly more interesting that winding up with the vehicle equivalent of a yes-man that would rather you be content versus doing what's right. They say the same thing about relationships after all! And any arguments of such dramatic tone would make for some most fascinating scenarios. Another goofy setup could involve a crotchety old woman that could barely see two inches in front of her, yet insists on driving. Her car would have to walk the fine line of keeping in her safety while not breaking the illusion she's in control. And just general interactions with an old coot.
The process of raising cars is a huge thing in and of itself for me. How exactly do they grow? How long does it take? When does a car know to stop growing? Do you have to get their "bits" installed down the line or are they born with them? Do they have their own terrible two's or rebellious teenage years? What's instinct to a baby car, and what needs to be taught? Are they ever at an adorable "power wheels" stage where young children can drive them? XD
Oh, I definitely wasn't forgetting that cars spend most their time parked. I was only concerned with the rare scenarios of prolonged usage. And even then, I realize that it's probably more normal for them to easily take in the whole entire feat, be it road trip or traffic jam. Honestly, I was just entertaining the idea of cars enjoying a break from monotony like that. The mental image of a car going anthro or some halfway between full-anthro and normal while a driver is still in is just too much fun to me, particularly in a "nature's call" type scenario. The realistic answer would probably be as you said: they'd have failsafes against that sort of thing. However, that can't keep me from being fascinated by the concept! X3
As for a car with overfilled balls, why not put those rear "legs" to work by raising that hind end as high as it goes! Sure, it probably still wouldn't be comfortable for the car, but he's got places to be! Call me weird, but I'm just as curious about goofy sex stuff when cars are down on all fours as when they're in a position to better deal with whatever comes their way. Working around kinky stuff is always super fun to me, rather than it only being about the kink.
Red: the car world where you can do the opposite of neutering...
I'm still trying to decide about human/car relations in that world. I'm assuming far enough in the future it could possibly be okay. But just knowing how people are, you know there'd be people squawking about how it's immoral or 'unnatural.' Most likely bible-freaks but not just them. Maybe it could not necessarily be illegal, but still be kind of a fringe thing.
Oooh heheh... *grabs your shaft* I'd like to opposite neuter you big boy... ; P
^^ hehe aww baby. *pet* there you are cutesyfluff. <3 How's my pretty little bird tonight? *kiss*
1. Well the hitch with that humans with disabilities are limited to being helped only as far as our medical knowledge knows. Like there's so much about the brain we still don't understand outside of brute force stuff like lobotomizes or meds there's not a lot we can do. But the plus side for anthro cars is that we built them from scratch, so if something is wrong with a car from birth, it can be troubleshooted and fixed, parts swapped out, ect. Though, you've gotta wonder, with how corrupt companies can get, if off the books some birthing facilities have cut costs by tossing deformed car pups right into the smelter to be made back into metal and recycled.... because it's cheaper...
2. Yes conversions can be done. Though it's not common because it's very expensive, more expensive then just buying a new anthro car. So it'd be either very famous historic cars, or rich people who really love their cars and want to 'take them to the next step.' I'd basically involve taking the body of the car, cutting it into 3 section 'butt,body,head' stripping parts in-between that aren't needed. Replacing the engine, computer, and electrical systems. Completely reworking the suspension system (since transformable legs and arms and all) Then installing all the new systems and all the hydraulics and anthro components. Then there's whatever cost it is to buy AI software to load onto the car, then whatever process it takes to infest the car's body with the nanites (they make the car age and grow, it's also how it's body takes in nutrients from it's food. Then last but not least, the reproductive system needs to be installed.
Though it might be a money-saving option to opt for a starile car and not give it a reproductive system. Nanites might also be able to be skipped since a normal car is already full grown size.
3. Depends if it's battery is preserved. Like a normal computer, it's personality and all it's brain things are stored in RAM, so if the power is cut completely that data is lost. Though maybe.. if it's backed up in permanent storage somewhere like a hard drive... hmm..
1. Well not a reboot, but some troubleshooting, or some mechanical work. Why would they melt down baby cars? Well why do we grind up lil chicks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ5qAfyUuWE
2. Interesting, I guess that would have to be the case. Maybe it'd be an online update done automatically. Or maybe they go to the dealer and they attach the update wire into the port under the dash where techs attach those error-code scan readers.
3. Sound legit.
Lol sounds like a fun dream!