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What do sharks and dolphins have to do with anything? Sharks and dolphins are defined by their DNA, and frankly look nothing like one another.
The point here is to ask, what properties does and object have to have before being termed a "car". I think it is pretty clear. It has to be self propelling, move via it's wheels, have somewhere for a driver to sit and be drivable. That seems fair to me, and certainly doesn't exclude it being self-reproducing. Do you have another definition?
If it is a multicellular thing that starts as one cell and keeps adding cells until it becomes an adult, then it is an animal that looks like a car, not a car .
If it builds a copy of itself by machining full size components and assembling them together, then it is a robotic machine shop on wheels, is probably the size and complexity of detroit, and is impractical as a car .
And if it uses magic, then it is fiction.
Neither should be called a car. But rather than get hung up on semantics, is there a reason that any of this matters?
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