self-moving

[ self-moo-ving, self- ]

/ ˌsɛlfˈmu vɪŋ, ˈsɛlf- /

capable of moving without an external agency.

Origin of self-moving

First recorded in 1575–85

self-move·ment, noun self-mov·er, noun

If it were not so, why does one call a horseless carriage 'automobile' instead of 'self-moving carriage'?

A Fantasy of Far Japan |Baron Kencho Suyematsu
Having devised a scheme for perpetual motion he constructed several wheels which he claimed to be self-moving.

The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] |John Phin
Machine, n. automaton (self-moving machine); mechanism; organization, system.

Putnam's Word Book |Louis A. Flemming
A self-moving car with a trolley overhead touching the singing wire!

Here and Now Story Book |Lucy Sprague Mitchell

Nature is in all its parts living, self-moving along the lines of its development, productivity and product both in one.

Edward Caldwell Moore |Edward Moore