考研英语阅读 无人驾驶汽车的商业化之路

　　Screens mounted on the vans' exteriors let them communicate with pedeZstrians and other road users, for example to tell a pedestrian that it is safe to cross a road.
　　安装在汽车外部的屏幕能传递讯息给行人和其他道路使用者，例如，告诉行人现在可安全通行。
　　Rather than trying to build a vehicle that mimics a human-piloted one, Drive.ai is making the self-driving nature of its vehicles explicit.
　　比起制造一辆模拟人类驾驶的汽车，Drive.ai 公司更想要让无人驾驶本身的特性更为明显。
　　Similarly, rather than trying to build a vehicle that cannavigateroadworks (anotoriouslydifficult problem, given inconsistent signage), Drive.ai has arranged for the city authorities to tell it where any roadworks are each day, so that its vehicles can avoid them.
　　同样，比起开发一种可以绕过道路施工（这是一个广为人知的难题，因为其标识不统一）、顺利通行的车辆，Drive.ai 公司更愿意找市政府要施工道路信息的授权，以便其车辆可以避开这些道路。
　　The company has also liaised with emergency services (another potential source of confusion for autonomous vehicles) and held a series of town-hall meetings to answer questions from locals.
　　这家公司同样与急救服务机构（自动驾驶汽车的另一个潜在问题的来源）合作，并举行了一系列的市政厅会议来回答本地民众提出的问题。
　　Drive.ai will limit the service to daylight hours, which makes things simpler and safer.
　　Drive.ai将只在白天提供无人驾驶汽车服务，这使得一切事情都变得简单安全。
　　Each vehicle will initially have a safety driver, who will shift to a passenger seat if all goes well.
　　每一辆无人驾驶汽车最初都会配备一位安全驾驶员，当这辆车一切运行良好时，他会坐到副驾驶位上。
　　If a van gets confused it can stop and call for help: a remote supervisor then advises it how to proceed (rather than driving the vehicle remotely, which would not be safe, says Mr Ng).
　　如果一辆无人驾驶汽车在行驶过程中出现了无法做出选择的情况，它可以停下来并发出求助：一位远程管理员随后提供前行建议（而非直接远程驾驶，因为远程驾驶不安全，吴恩达如是说）。
　　It might sound as though Drive.ai is cheating, by simplifying the problem in so many ways.
　　尽管 Drive.ai 公司的言辞听起来并不可信，因为它用多种方法把问题简化了。
　　But the end result is still a useful service; letting workers visit the retail park for lunch without having to worry about driving or parking.
　　但是最终的结果表示无人驾驶仍是有益的服务；这使得工人们可以乘车前往商业区吃午饭，而不用担心开车或者停车的问题。
　　And it provides a foundation from which to expand the service in future, in Frisco and elsewhere.
　　此外，它还为未来在弗利克斯以及其他地区拓展这项服务奠定了基础。
　　Drive.ai plans to license its technology to others, and has struck a deal with Lyft, a ride-hailing firm, to operate vehicles in and around San Francisco.
　　Drive.ai公司计划将其科技专利授权给其他人，并已经与约车平台 Lyft 达成交易，它们打算在旧金山及其周边开展无人驾驶汽车服务。
　　"I think the autonomous-vehicle industry should beupfrontabout recognising the limitations of today's technology," says Mr Ng.
　　吴恩达表示，“我认为，无人驾驶汽车行业应该坦率地承认当今技术的局限性。”
　　It is surely better to find pragmatic ways to work around those limitations than pretend they do not exist or promise that solving them will be easy.
　　寻求实际方法避开这些局限显然比假装这些局限不存在或者保证能轻易解决这些限制要好得多。


　　重难点词汇：
　　navigate ['nv'get] vt. 驾驶，操纵；使通过；航行于；解决，应对 vi. 航行，航空
　　notoriously [notrisli] adv. 众所周知地；声名狼藉地；恶名昭彰地
　　upfront [,p'frnt] adj. 预付的；在前面的；正直的，坦率的 adv. 在前面；提前支付