Abstract Basic models which give rise to one- and two-dimensional (1D 2D) solitons, such as the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations for BEC, feature Galilean invariance, makes it possible generate families of moving solitons from quiescent ones. A challenging problem is find admitting stable self-accelerating (SA) motion solitons. SA modes are known in linear systems form Airy waves, but they poorl...