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托福培训 / 托福阅读背景知识之谷歌无人车 作为托福考试的第一个考项，阅读考试往往是考生寄予厚望的考试，想要获取高分托福，阅读成 绩就不能太过普通，否则托福高分的机会将大大减少。大家虽然耗费了很长的一段时间在托福阅读 上，但是想要拿高分却不是件容易的事，接下来100教育的名师为大家分享托福阅读背景知识之谷歌无 人车，希望对大家有所帮助。 Google is miles ahead of its rivals in the race for autonomous motoring 谷歌在无人驾驶领域研发的竞争中已甩开对手几条街 TO GOOGLE is now in broad usage as a verb for retrieving information fromthe internet. If the tech giant has its way, “I Googled” will become a standardreply to the question, “How did you get here?” On May 28th Google said it wouldbuild 100 prototype driverless cars devoid of pedals, steering wheel or controlssave an on/off switch. It is the next stage in its apparent quest to be asubiquitous on the road as on computer screens. 如今，“谷歌”常被广泛用于互联网信息检索，因而“谷歌”常被用作动词。如果这一科技巨头独行其 道，对于“你是怎么过来的?”这种问题，它的标准答案将会是“我谷歌来的”。5月28日，谷歌表示， 其将制造100辆无人驾驶原型车，它们没有踏板，没有方向盘，也没有其他各类控制表盘，只留下一个 开关键。谷歌希望在无人车的市场能够做到与搜索市场一样，给人们提供生活中必不可少的服务，这显 然是下一阶段追求。 People have dreamed about driverless motoring since at least the 1930s, butonly in recent years have carmakers such as Mercedes-Benz and Volvo given thematter more thought, kitting out test cars with the sensors and sophisticatedsoftware required to negotiate busy roads. Google has roared ahead by designinga driverless car from the ground up. 至少从19世纪30年代起，人们就已经开始设想无人驾驶汽车，但只有一些汽车制造商，如奔驰、沃尔沃 ，在近些年尝试把这一想法付诸实践。一辆装备着传感器和复杂软件的测试车需要在繁忙的道路上权衡 最佳行车方案。谷歌公司从零起步，设计无人驾驶汽车，已经鹤立鸡群。 But bringing autonomous motoring to the world is proving harder than Googlehad envisaged. It once promised it by 2017. Now it does not see productionmodels coming out before 2020. The technology is far advanced, but needsshrinking in size and cost—Googles current test cars, retrofittedToyotaandLexus models, are said to be packed with $80,000-worth of equipment. 但是现实证明，无人驾驶汽车的面世比谷歌预想的要难。它曾承诺到2017年就能面世。而今预计产品模 型不会在2020年前被制造出来。这项技术十分超前，但需要缩减产品尺寸及成本，谷歌现阶段的测试车 改装自丰田和雷克萨斯的车型，据说测试车里塞满了价值8万美元的设备。 Googles latest efforts