【成才之路】2014-2015学年高中英语必修四(外研版)讲稿：Module 1.ppt

无人驾驶的汽车真的会出现吗？各大汽车公司对未来的无人驾驶巡逻车的展望是什么样子的？他们推出的概念车又是什么样子的呢？ Self-driving cars are barely on the road yet, but designers apparently think theyll be the future of police work. At the Los Angeles Car Shows annual design challenge, car companies were asked to predict the highway patrol1 vehicle of 2025. As The New York Times reports, several of the concepts were autonomous2 , designed either to be completely unmanned or to help officers monitor3 the area. BMWs (宝马) E-Patrol, for example, would include both “unicycle-like” robot vehicles and a flying unmanned machine that could be deployed4 by police to disable cars with an electromagnetic pulse(电磁脉冲). In the same time, Hondas(本田) speculative CHP Drone Squad includes two-and four-wheeled autonomous vehicles. The more conservative5 Subaru (斯巴鲁) merely imagined a self-driving car that would work in water. GM (通用汽车公司) created a concept that would run on an updated6 version of the Chevrolet Volts hybrid propulsion system (雪弗兰两用车推进系统)． As one can tell from the concept art gallery, the designs are a bit tongue-in-cheek,_built more for Hollywood than a real police force. Even so, they show that autonomous vehicles have very much entered the public imagination. And, if anything, the action-movie feel of most of them is a little unsettling, especially in light of the very real debates over militarization7 of the police force. 知识点击 1．patrol n．巡逻　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 2.autonomous adj.自动的；自主的；自治的 3．monitor v．监控 4.deploy v．部署；调动 5．conservative adj.保守的 6.updated adj.更新的 7．militarization n．军事化 自主探究 1．Who are the concepts designed for? (no more than 2 words) ____________________________________________________ 2．Whats the meaning of the underlined word in the last paragraph? (no more than 2 words) ____________________________________________________ 3．How many concepts are introduced in the passage? (no more than 2 words) ____________________________________________________ 答案：1.Future police.　2.Not seriou