1)Driverless Cars Coming Soon

by Victoria Ciccarelli翻譯：折耳貓

去年年底，無人駕駛公交已在深圳上路，對于無人駕駛汽車有些人可能或多或少存有擔心：車內連個方向盤都沒有，真的安全嗎？但事實是無人駕駛汽車可能更安全。不信？看看便知。

You are driving to school. You look up to see a pretty, hot air balloon.2)Whoa! You almostwent througha stop sign! In a driverless car, you can look at the balloon. The car sees the stop signwithoutyour help and stops the car. Car makers are already testing driverless cars or AVs (3)automated4)vehicles) in the U.S. and other countries. Some companies are working together on driverless technology. Google (USA) and Nissan (Japan) are making their own driverless cars.

Driverless cars are a great idea. Blind people could use them and old people wouldn’t have togive uptheir cars. With driverless cars, people can just choose a place they want to go and program the car. Then5)pusha6)buttonand the car takes you there.

As cars get more driverless technology, they will be safer than cars with a driver. Driverless cars can move closer together on the road than cars with drivers.This may make driving on busy roads safer. Also, AVs don’t getsleepyor7)texton their phones while driving.Google’s driverless cars have never caused a8)majoraccident on the road since 2010.

There are some problems with AVs.9)Hackersmaytake overthe car. There will probably be fewer jobs for people who drive taxis and trucks.

In the future, both vehicles with drivers and vehicles without drivers may share the road. You will have a choice. You can be the driver of your car, or you can look out the window while the car drives you.

1) driverless ['dra?v?l?s]adj. 無人駕駛的

2) whoa [w??] int. 驚嘆聲

3) automated ['??t?me?t?d]adj. 自動的

4) vehicle ['vi??kl] n. 車輛

5) push [p??]v. 按；按下（按鈕、開關等）

6) button ['b?tn] n. 按鈕

7) text [tekst] v. 發短信

8) major ['me?d??] adj. 主要的

9) hacker ['h?k?] n. 黑客

詞組加油站

★go through穿過；通過

★take over接管

參考譯文

你正開著車去學校。抬頭看了下前方的一個漂亮的熱氣球。?。∧悴铧c沖過了停車標識！在無人駕駛的汽車里，你可以看氣球。因為汽車會自動識別停車標識并停下來。在美國以及其他國家，汽車制造商們已經在測試無人駕駛汽車或是自動駕駛汽車了。有些公司正聯合研發無人駕駛汽車。谷歌（美國）和日產汽車公司（日本）便正聯合制造無人駕駛汽車。

無人駕駛汽車是一個偉大的想法。盲人可以開，老年人也不用被迫放棄駕駛。人們只需選好目的地，設置好程序，按下按鈕，車子就會把你載到目的地。

隨著無人駕駛技術的提升，無人駕駛的汽車的安全性亦將高于有人駕駛的汽車。無人駕駛汽車在路上的行車距離更短，在擁擠的道路上其安全性也比有人駕駛的汽車更勝一籌。而且，自動駕駛汽車不會出現疲勞駕駛或者在駕駛期間發短信的情況。谷歌的無人駕駛汽車自2010年以來從未發生過重大交通事故。

但是自動駕駛汽車也存在一些問題，如汽車可能會被黑客劫持，出租車和卡車司機可能就業困難。

將來，馬路上無人駕駛和有人駕駛汽車將會共存。你可以二擇其一。你既可以自己開車也可以選擇坐看窗外風景，任由汽車載你遨游。

名師考點小結

1.without在文中用作介詞，意為“無；沒有”，常用來表示假設或伴隨情況，后接名詞、代詞或動名詞，其反義詞為with。例如：

Without water, we can not live.（表假設）沒有水，我們無法生存。

She may live better without them as neighbors.（伴隨）沒有這些鄰居，她也許會過得更愉快一些。

He played all day without playing the piano.（伴隨）他玩了一整天，沒有練鋼琴。

2.give up是動詞短語，表示“放棄”，可單獨使用，后也可接名詞、代詞以及動名詞形式。例如：John gave up his good job and looked after his mother at home.

為了在家照顧媽媽，約翰放棄了他的好工作。

My doctor advised me to give up smoking without delay. 我的醫生勸我立即戒煙。

當代詞作賓語時要放在give和up的中間。例如：

English is hard to learn, but we can’t give it up. 英語雖然難學，但我們不能放棄。

拓展：由give構成的其他常用短語：give away 贈送；give back 歸還；

give in 屈服； give off 發出；give out 分發

3.sleepy是形容詞，意為“困倦的；不活躍的”，在句中既可作表語，也可作定語。例如：

I’m too sleepy to watch the end of the show.（作表語）我太困倦了，沒能看完演出。

She always has a sleepy expression.（作定語）她總是一副懶洋洋的表情。

拓展：asleep也是形容詞，意為“睡著的”，在句中只能作表語，不能作定語。例如：

The girl was so tired that she fell asleep at her desk. 那女孩太累了，以至于趴在書桌上睡著了。