[JasonFruit]

'Autonomous' is an adjective.

[repsilat]

So is "mobile". It used to be awkward and embarrassing when someone said things like "focusing on mobile" but then we got used to it I guess. The same might happen here (though "driverless" will probably be more common than "autonomous".)

[JasonFruit]

I don't have to like it. I am still bothered by "mobile", "solar", "nuclear" (or "nookyular"), and the rest. I'm willing to die on this hill — or to stand on it, waving my arms, showing that one man at least cares about the English language.

[soVeryTired]

People - particularly businesspeople, and especially American businesspeople - like to noun and verb words.

Verbing and nouning weirds language.

[braythwayt]

> Verbing weirds language

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25

Don't miss the comment pointing out the word "denominative:"

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/denominative

[bunderbunder]

Depending on just how traditional you want to be, it may not even be a word.

[jayess]

I guess it's sorta like how "architect" has become a verb.

[eric_h]

According to [0], the use of architect as a verb goes back to at least 1818.

0) https://english.stackexchange.com/a/212273

[jmkb]

And it's similar in form to verbs like detect and protect. Maybe the noun should be architector.