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JenniferHealey_2013S-_汽车若能交流_车祸或可避免_
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| Let's face it: |
让我们来面对一桩事实吧 |
| Driving is dangerous. |
开车是一件危险的事 |
| It's one of the things that we don't like to think about, but the fact that religious icons and good luck charms show up on dashboards around the world betrays the fact that we know this to be true. |
它是我们不愿意去想的事物之一 但事实上那些神像和平安符 世界各地都有人把它们摆在仪表盘的上方 这就无意中透露出一个我们都心知肚明的事实 |
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religious:adj.宗教的;虔诚的;严谨的;修道的;n.修道士;尼姑; charms:n.符咒;护身符(charm的复数形式);吸引力; dashboards:n.(汽车上的)仪表盘(dashboard的复数); betrays:v.出卖;泄露(机密);辜负;(betray的第三人称单数)
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| Car accidents are the leading cause of death in people ages 16 to 19 in the United States -- leading cause of death -- and 75 percent of these accidents have nothing to do with drugs or alcohol . |
车祸是死亡的主因 尤其在美国16到19岁的美国人群中 死亡的主因 并且百分之七十五的车祸 都与毒品和酒精无关 |
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United:adj.联合的; v.联合,团结; (unite的过去分词和过去式) have nothing to do with:与…无关; alcohol:n.酒精;乙醇;含酒精饮料;
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| So what happens? |
那么 究竟发生了什么 |
| No one can say for sure, but I remember my first accident. |
没人能给出确切答案 但我记得我第一次出车祸 |
| I was a young driver out on the highway, and the car in front of me, I saw the brake lights go on. |
我当时还是个开车的新手,当时正在外面高速路上开着车。 我突然看见我前面汽车的刹车灯亮了 |
| I'm like, "Okay, all right, this guy is slowing down, |
我当时想 好吧 他减速了 |
| I'll slow down too." |
那我也减速好了 |
| I step on the brake. |
我踩了刹车 |
| But no, this guy isn't slowing down. |
但是 我前面那个人并不是在减速 |
| This guy is stopping, dead stop, dead stop on the highway. |
他（竟然）停车了 突然停车—— 在高速路上突然停车 |
| It was just going 65 -- to zero? |
速度从65迈瞬降到0 |
| I slammed on the brakes. |
我猛踩刹车 |
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slammed:v.(使…)砰地关上;使劲一推;猛烈抨击;(slam的过去分词和过去式)
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| I felt the ABS kick in, and the car is still going, and it's not going to stop, and I know it's not going to stop, and the air bag deploys , the car is totaled , and fortunately , no one was hurt. |
我当时感觉到我的车的防抱死系统启动了 但车还在行驶 并没停下来的意思 我也知道我的车停不了了 安全气囊也鼓了起来 车报废了 但幸运的是 没有人受伤 |
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deploys:部署; totaled:v.总数达;合计;(total的过去分词和过去式) fortunately:adv.幸运地;
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| But I had no idea that car was stopping, and I think we can do a lot better than that. |
但我根本不知道我前面那辆车要停 而且我想我们可以比那做得更好 |
| I think we can transform the driving experience by letting our cars talk to each other. |
我想我们通过实现“让汽车之间对话”—— 来改变我们的驾驶体验 |
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transform:v.使改变;使改观;使转换;n.[数]变换式;[化]反式;
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| I just want you to think a little bit about what the experience of driving is like now. |
我希望你们能思考片刻 思考一下现在的驾驶体验是怎么样的 |
| Get into your car. Close the door. You're in a glass bubble . |
坐进车里 关上车门 你就已经置身在一个玻璃气泡中 |
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bubble:n.泡;气泡;肥皂泡;一点感情;v.起泡;冒泡;洋溢着(某种感情);
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| You can't really directly sense the world around you. |
你不能直接感受到你周围的世界 |
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directly:adv.直接地;立即;马上;正好地;坦率地;conj.一…就;
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| You're in this extended body. |
因为你坐在车这样一个不小的空间里 |
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extended:adj.延长了的;扩展了的;v.使伸长;扩大;扩展;(extend的过去式和过去分词)
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| You're tasked with navigating it down partially-seen roadways , in and amongst other metal giants , at super-human speeds. |
你的任务就是导航 你只能看见道路的一部分 并且以超人类的速度行驶在其他的“金属巨人”间 |
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navigating:v.航行,操纵(navigate的现在分词形式);adj.航行的,航行中; roadways:n.道路;路面;车行道;铁路的路基; amongst:prep.在…之中;在…当中(等于among); giants:n.巨人;大汉;巨兽;巨树;(giant的复数)
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| Okay? And all you have to guide you are your two eyes. |
对吧？ 你只能靠双眼来导航 |
| Okay, so that's all you have, eyes that weren't really designed for this task, but then people ask you to do things like, you want to make a lane change, what's the first thing they ask you do? |
对 你别无他法 （但其实）眼睛并非是用来干着活儿的 但是有些事情你就必须得做,比方说, 你想换个车道 那你第一件要做的事是什么 |
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lane:n.车道;小巷;泳道;胡同;
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| Take your eyes off the road. That's right. |
将眼睛从车道上移开 对 |
| Stop looking where you're going, turn, check your blind spot , and drive down the road without looking where you're going. |
将目光从你前进的方向移开 转弯 检查一下盲点 然后就一直开 根本不注意自己在往哪里开 |
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blind spot:n.视线盲区(尤指车辆驾驶员看不见的路段);无视;没有认识; down the road:只要沿着这条路;将来;在路上;
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| You and everyone else. This is the safe way to drive. |
所有人都这么做 这是安全的驾驶方式 |
| Why do we do this? Because we have to, we have to make a choice, do I look here or do I look here? |
我们为什么这么做？ 因为我们别无选择 我们必须作出一个抉择 是朝这儿看 还是朝那儿看 |
| What's more important? |
更重要的一点是什么呢 |
| And usually we do a fantastic job picking and choosing what we attend to on the road. |
我们通常都做得很好 能够很好的选择我们要往哪个方向开 |
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fantastic:奇异的,空想的
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| But occasionally we miss something. |
但是偶然 我们也会忘记一些事情 |
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occasionally:adv.偶尔;有时候;偶然;
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| Occasionally we sense something wrong or too late. |
有时 当我们发觉有些东西出了问题的时候 已经为时过晚。 |
| In countless accidents, the driver says, "I didn't see it coming." |
在无数的车祸中 司机都会说 “我没想到会这样。” |
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countless:adj.无数的;数不尽的;
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| And I believe that. I believe that. |
我相信他们的话 我相信 |
| We can only watch so much. |
我们看到的只有这么多而已 |
| But the technology exists now that can help us improve that. |
但是现存的科技可以帮我们改善这一点 |
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technology:n.技术;工艺;术语; improve:v.改进;改善;
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| In the future, with cars exchanging data with each other, we will be able to see not just three cars ahead and three cars behind, to the right and left, all at the same time , bird's eye view, we will actually be able to see into those cars. |
在未来 车与车之间可以交换数据 我们就不仅只能看见前面的三台车了 还能看见后面的三台车,左边的,以及右边车。 同时看见 鸟瞰视野 我们可以看见这些车的内部 |
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at the same time:同时;另一方面;与此同时;
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| We will be able to see the velocity of the car in front of us, to see how fast that guy's going or stopping. |
我们可以看到我们前面那辆车的速度 看看前面那位什么时候会启动或停下 |
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velocity:n.[物]速度;
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| If that guy's going down to zero, I'll know. |
假如那人的速度突然降到零,我就能知道了。 |
| And with computation and algorithms and predictive models, we will be able to see the future. |
利用运算 代数以及预测模型 我们能看见未来 |
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computation:n.估计,计算; predictive:adj.预言性的;成为前兆的;
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| You may think that's impossible. |
你可能会觉得这是不可能的 |
| How can you predict the future? That's really hard. |
你怎么能预测未来呢 太难了 |
| Actually, no. With cars, it's not impossible. |
事实上 不难 对于汽车来说 这并非不可能 |
| Cars are three-dimensional objects that have a fixed position and velocity. |
汽车是三维物体 位置速度都是固定的 |
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three-dimensional:adj.三维的;立体的;真实的;
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| They travel down roads. |
行使在路上的时候 |
| Often they travel on pre-published routes . |
它们通常都是按照预先规划好的道路行驶 |
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routes:n.路线;途径;路途;渠道;v.按某路线发送;(route的第三人称单数和复数)
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| It's really not that hard to make reasonable predictions about where a car's going to be in the near future. |
未来 想要预测汽车将要驶向什么方向 对之作出合理的预测并不困难 |
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reasonable:adj.合理的,公道的;通情达理的; predictions:n.预测,预言(prediction复数形式);
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| Even if, when you're in your car and some motorcyclist comes -- bshoom! -- 85 miles an hour down, lane-splitting -- |
即使你在自己的车里 突然出现了一个开着摩托的人 砰！ 时速85英里,跟你抢车道 |
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motorcyclist:n.骑摩托车的人;
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| I know you've had this experience -- that guy didn't "just come out of nowhere ." |
我知道你们曾经有过这样的经历 那个开摩托的并非凭空出现 |
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nowhere:v.无处; n.无处; adj.不存在的;
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| That guy's been on the road probably for the last half hour. |
他可能之前的半小时就一直在路上开着吧 |
| (Laughter) |
（笑声） |
| Right? I mean, somebody's seen him. |
对吧？我的意思是,有人看见过他 |
| Ten, 20, 30 miles back, someone's seen that guy, and as soon as one car sees that guy and puts him on the map, he's on the map -- position, velocity, good estimate he'll continue going 85 miles an hour. |
在10,20,30英里前,有人看见过他, 只要一辆车看见那个人 将他的信息置入地图中,他的位置就会显示在地图上了 位置,速度 预测他将保持85英里的时速 |
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as soon as:一…就; estimate:v.估计;估算;估价;n.估价;(对大小、数量、成本等的)估计;估计的成本;
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| You'll know, because your car will know, because that other car will have whispered something in his ear, like, " By the way , five minutes, motorcyclist, watch out." |
那你就知道了,因为你的车就会知道了,因为 其他的车已经悄悄把这件事告诉它了 打个比方,“告诉你一声,五分钟之后 会出现个开摩托的,注意。” |
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By the way:顺便说一下;
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| You can make reasonable predictions about how cars behave . |
你可以对汽车的运动作出合理的预测。 |
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behave:v.表现;(机器等)运转;举止端正;(事物)起某种作用;
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| I mean, they're Newtonian objects. |
它们可是遵从牛顿力学的物体 |
| That's very nice about them. |
这是它们的优点 |
| So how do we get there? |
那么我们怎么样才能做到这一点呢 |
| We can start with something as simple as sharing our position data between cars, just sharing GPS. |
我们可以从简单的开始 比如在车辆间共享位置数据 只需要共享GPS |
| If I have a GPS and a camera in my car, |
假如我的车内装有GPS和摄像头 |
| I have a pretty precise idea of where I am and how fast I'm going. |
我就能清楚地知道自己的位置 自己的速度 |
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precise:adj.准确的;确切的;精确的;明确的;
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| With computer vision , I can estimate where the cars around me are, sort of, and where they're going. |
那么利用电脑视野,我就可以预测 我周围的车大概在哪里,他们在向哪个方向前进 |
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vision:n.视力;美景;幻象;想象力;v.想象;显现;梦见;
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| And same with the other cars. |
其他的车也是一样 |
| They can have a precise idea of where they are, and sort of a vague idea of where the other cars are. |
他们也能知道自己的准确位置 并且大致知道其他车的位置 |
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vague:adj.模糊的;含糊的;不明确的;暧昧的;
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| What happens if two cars share that data, if they talk to each other? |
假如两车共享数据的话会发生什么呢？ 假如他们实现彼此对话又会发生什么呢? |
| I can tell you exactly what happens. |
我可以很明确的告诉你答案 |
| Both models improve. |
这两种模型都会进步 |
| Everybody wins. |
共赢 |
| Professor Bob Wang and his team have done computer simulations of what happens when fuzzy estimates combine, even in light traffic, when cars just share GPS data, |
王鲍勃教授和他的团队 做了个电脑模拟系统 来研究 当我们结合不同的模糊预测的时候会发生什么 即使只是在交通情况通畅、 汽车仅仅共享GPS数据时 |
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simulations:n.[计]模拟(simulation的复数);[计]仿真; fuzzy:adj.模糊的;失真的;有绒毛的; estimates:n.估计;估价;估计的成本;v.估价;估算(estimate的第三人称单数和复数)
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| and we've moved this research out of the computer simulation and into robot test beds that have the actual sensors that are in cars now on these robots: stereo cameras, GPS, and the two-dimensional laser range finders that are common in backup systems. |
之后 我们让这项研究不仅限于电脑模拟 我们还用机器人测试床 它们用到的传感器 正是当下汽车里真正在用到的传感器 在这些机器人上有 立体相机 GPS 二位激光测距仪 这些（也）都是备用系统中非常常见的 |
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sensors:n.[自]传感器,感应器;感测器(sensor的复数); stereo:n.立体声;立体声音响;adj.立体(声)的; two-dimensional:adj.二维的;缺乏深度的; finders:n.探测器;瞄准装置;寻像器;寻线机;(finder的复数) backup:n.后援;增援;(文件等的)备份;adj.后补的;支持性的;伴奏的;
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| We also attach a discrete short-range communication radio, and the robots talk to each other. |
我们再安装一个离散短距离无线电 实现机器人间的通话 |
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attach:v.贴上;重视;把…固定,把…附(在…上);参加;与…有联系; discrete:adj.离散的,不连续的;n.分立元件;独立部件; short-range:adj.短射程的;短期间的;
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| When these robots come at each other, they track each other's position precisely, and they can avoid each other. |
当这些机器人遇见彼此时 它们能够准确地追踪彼此的位置 并可躲避彼此 |
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track:n.小道;足迹;车辙;轨道;v.追踪;跟踪;
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| We're now adding more and more robots into the mix, and we encountered some problems. |
我们现在正在向这样的混合系统中 添加更多的机器人 我们也遇到了一些问题 |
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encountered:v.遭遇,遇到;偶然碰到;意外地遇见;(encounter的过去分词和过去式)
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| One of the problems, when you get too much chatter , it's hard to process all the packets, so you have to prioritize , and that's where the predictive model helps you. |
问题之一就是 当（汽车间的）“悄悄话”太泛滥 就很难处理所有的信息 所以你必须抓重点 在这样的情况下预测模型就可以派上用场了 |
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chatter:v.打颤;卡嗒地响;瞎谈;(鸟等)鸣;n.饶舌;卡嗒声;啁啾; process:v.处理;加工;列队行进;n.过程,进行;方法,adj.经过特殊加工(或处理)的; prioritize:v.按重要性排列;划分优先顺序;优先处理;
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| If your robot cars are all tracking the predicted trajectories , you don't pay as much attention to those packets. |
假如你的机器人机器正在追踪所有已预测的轨迹 那么你就不用花费太多的精力去关注那些了 |
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tracking:n.追踪,跟踪;v.跟踪;(track的现在分词) predicted:v.预言;预告;预报;(predict的过去分词和过去式) trajectories:n.轨迹;轨道线(trajectory的复数形式);
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| You prioritize the one guy who seems to be going a little off course. |
你可以将重心放在某台 看上去有些偏离航向的车上 |
| That guy could be a problem. |
那台车可能是一个隐患 |
| And you can predict the new trajectory . |
那你就可以预测新的路线 |
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trajectory:n.[物]轨道,轨线;[航][军]弹道;
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| So you don't only know that he's going off course, you know how. |
这样你不仅知道了它正在偏离航向 你还知道了它是怎样偏离的 |
| And you know which drivers you need to alert to get out of the way. |
而且你还能知道你该提醒哪些司机注意躲避 |
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alert:n.警报; adj.警觉的; v.向…报警;
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| And we wanted to do -- how can we best alert everyone? |
我们一直也想这么做 可是怎样提醒他人才好呢 |
| How can these cars whisper , "You need to get out of the way?" |
车怎么可能悄悄给彼此送信 说“你得躲一躲” |
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whisper:v.耳语;低语;私语;小声说;n.耳语(声);低语(声);私语(声);轻柔的声音;
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| Well, it depends on two things: one, the ability of the car, and second the ability of the driver. |
这个取决于两件事 第一 汽车的能力 第二 司机的能力 |
| If one guy has a really great car, but they're on their phone or, you know, doing something, they're not probably in the best position to react in an emergency . |
假如一个人的车超棒 但他在打电话或者,你懂得,开开小差 那他可能状态不佳 在面对紧急情况的时候措手不及 |
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react:v.起反应;回应;(对食物等)有不良反应,过敏;起化学反应; emergency:n.紧急情况;突发事件;非常时刻;adj.紧急的;备用的;
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| So we started a separate line of research doing driver state modeling. |
所以我们开展了一条独立的研究线路 司机状态模型 |
| And now, using a series of three cameras, we can detect if a driver is looking forward, looking away, looking down, on the phone, or having a cup of coffee. |
我们利用一系列三个摄像头 我们可以监测这个司机是在向前看 向边上看 向下看 打电话 还是喝咖啡 |
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series:n.系列,连续;[电]串联;级数;丛书; detect:vt.察觉;发现;探测;
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| We can predict the accident and we can predict who, which cars, are in the best position to move out of the way to calculate the safest route for everyone. |
我们能预测车祸 我们可以预测哪些司机 哪些车 能够最快的离开将要出现事故的路线 为每个人算出最安全的线路 |
| Fundamentally , these technologies exist today. |
最根本的一点 这些技术现在已经成为了现实 |
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Fundamentally:adv.从根本上;基础地;重要地 technologies:n.技术;科技(technology的复数);
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| I think the biggest problem that we face is our own willingness to share our data. |
我认为我们面临的最大的问题 就是我们自己是否愿意分享自己的数据 |
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willingness:n.乐意;心甘情愿;自动自发;
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| I think it's a very disconcerting notion , this idea that our cars will be watching us, talking about us to other cars, that we'll be going down the road in a sea of gossip . |
我认为这是一个非常令人不安的想法 设想我们自己的车将要监视着我们 跟其他的车分享我们的一举一动 那样我们就像开车穿过 对我们指指点点的人群 |
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disconcerting:adj.令人不安的; v.使不安; (disconcert的现在分词) notion:n.观念;信念;理解; gossip:n.流言蜚语;闲聊;喜欢传播流言蜚语的人;v.传播流言蜚语;说三道四;
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| But I believe it can be done in a way that protects our privacy , just like right now, when I look at your car from the outside, |
但我想这件事可以在保护我们隐私的情况下成功 就像现在一样 当我在外面看向你的车的时候 |
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privacy:n.隐私;秘密;隐居;隐居处;
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| I don't really know about you. |
我并不能真正的了解你 |
| If I look at your license plate number, |
当我看你的车牌号码时 |
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license plate:牌照;
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| I don't really know who you are. |
我并不能知道你是谁 |
| I believe our cars can talk about us behind our backs. |
我觉得我们的车完全能在我们的背后谈论我们 |
| (Laughter) |
（笑声） |
| And I think it's going to be a great thing. |
而且 我认为这是一件非常好的事 |
| I want you to consider for a moment if you really don't want the distracted teenager behind you to know that you're braking, that you're coming to a dead stop. |
我希望你们能思考片刻 假如你真心不想让 开在你后面的心不在焉的年轻人 知道你要停车 你要突然刹车的话 |
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distracted:adj.心烦意乱; v.转移(注意力); (distract的过去分词和过去式)
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| By sharing our data willingly , we can do what's best for everyone. |
通过自愿分享我们的数据 我们可以实现人人共赢 |
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willingly:adv.欣然地;愿意地,乐意地;
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| So let your car gossip about you. |
所以让你的车“八卦”你吧 |
| It's going to make the roads a lot safer. |
这会让我们的道路更安全 |
| Thank you. |
谢谢大家 |
| (Applause) |
（鼓掌） |