"automaniac" meaning in English

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        "A person who is self-involved to the point of mental illness."
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  "etymology_text": "Of auto (“automobile”) + -maniac (“one who experiences obsession”). Attested from the early 20th century. Compare automania.",
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          "ref": "1902 July 23, “Record Breaking ‘Tours’”, in The Horseless Age, volume 10, page 81",
          "text": "A foolish dissipation, ending in broken rest, depleted purses, broken laws, broken automobiles, and broken bones.[…] Is the cost not heavy enough to bring even an automaniac to his senses?",
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          "text": "There seems to be need of a term to designate these new terrors of our streets, those speed crazed paranoiacs who are now doing so much to bring the automobile into disrepute.[…] The word “automaniac,” suggested by The Horseless Age, seems quite appropriate[…] Why not adopt the name “automania” for the disease and the automaniac to designate the person afflicted by it?",
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        "A road hog."
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