Ray McCarthy
Sentient Marmite: The Truth may make you fret.
Set in a future:
It starts with the white man and his wife getting a puncture. The autochanger repairs it. Then there are more punctures due to caltraps.
They abandon the car but later it passes them.
Setting is Africa. Perhaps East & West have annihilated each other since the rich white tourists arrived and are now of "no account". Only their goods have value, not their dollars.
Possibly in an Anthology before 1980s?
It starts with the white man and his wife getting a puncture. The autochanger repairs it. Then there are more punctures due to caltraps.
They abandon the car but later it passes them.
Setting is Africa. Perhaps East & West have annihilated each other since the rich white tourists arrived and are now of "no account". Only their goods have value, not their dollars.
Possibly in an Anthology before 1980s?