History Main / SentientVehicle

* ''WebOriginal/BosunsReturn'': Caravan, one of the three artificial posthuman bodies that the Bosun created to explore the Earth, is an organic vehicle who serves as the expedition's transportation and base, and like the other two houses a copy of the Bosun's own mind. He's shaped to resemble a quadrupedal mammal of sorts, with a sealed offshoot of his body cavity shaped to act as a living space in which the other two members spend their time while traveling.

* {{Reconstructed}} in ''WebAnimation/TheStoriesOfSodor''. Ever since the mid-19th century, vehicles have had a chance to gain faces the first time they're activated, and no-one can figure out why. Non-faceless vehicles can move on their own if they have fuel, but usually have humans with them just in case. They also have rights; for example, they can't be bought or sold without their permission, they can't be scrapped while they're still alive, and they can be euthanised. Most non-faceless vehicles are happy with their purposes in life.

* The main vehicle characters in ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' are construction vehicles.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Super Bike" dealt with Timmy wishing one up, resulting in a bike with a centaur like human half. Said bike turns out to be a {{yandere}} with HypnoticEyes who keeps Timmy isolated from everyone else.
* Terence, Trevor, George, and the Pack from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''.
* The entire cast of ''WesternAnimation/WheelieAndTheChopperBunch''
* The title character in the Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Wheels Wonder Wheels]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/JungleJunction'' mixes this with MixAndMatchCritters.

* Many spacecraft in [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks']] [[Literature/TheCulture Culture]] series.

* Bumblebee as a car in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' before TheReveal that he and his friends are totally alien giant robots from outer space.

* ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger Carranger''[=/=]''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''; the good guys had a pair of sentient flying cars from outer space. Also, the Crabbie Cabbie, a MonsterOfTheWeek from [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers the first series.]] and [[PunnyName Tankenstein]] from ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. Let's not forget the Engines of ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger''.

* ''[[Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger Carranger]]''[=/=]''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''; the good guys had a pair of sentient flying cars from outer space. Also, the Crabbie Cabbie, a MonsterOfTheWeek from [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers the first series.]] and [[PunnyName Tankenstein]] from ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. Let's not forget the Engines of ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger''.

Ever since their invention, people have always been enamored with vehicles. So just like animals, they've been anthropomorphized. There are sentient and sapient cars, buses, trucks, [=RVs=] (motorhomes), trams, [=ATVs=], trains (steam-powered, diesel-powered, monorail, or light rail), train cars, airplanes, helicopters, boats, ships, spaceships, etc. Name any vehicle, someone has probably made a character based on one. Some of them maintain a {{Masquerade}}, some do not, and some live in a world of their own without humans.

** In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E40AThingAboutMachines A Thing About Machines]]", a man is tormented by the machines in his home, among them a car which ends up chasing him into a swimming pool where he drowns.
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E134YouDrive You Drive]]", after a man kills a boy in a hit-and-run accident, his car develops a mind of its own and forces him to confess to the crime.
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' had an episode that dealt with this trope: Sabrina purchased a car from the Other Realm and it turned out to have a mind of its own. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]] as the car pestered Sabrina about the way she treated it.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Honking" features "Project Satan", a were-car built from the parts of other evil cars. Its steering wheel came from [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf Hitler]]'s staff car, its left blinker from [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson Charles Manson]]'s Volkswagen and its windshield wipers from [[Series/KnightRider K.I.T.T.]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Love and Rocket", the Planet Express Ship gets a new AI, which quickly falls in love with Bender.