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Autonomous Driving: Who Liability？the way of life
1 This month, Germany’s transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt, propod the first t of rules for autonomous vehicles. 2 They would define the driver’s role in such cars and govern how such cars perform in crashes where lives might be lost.
3 The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the “death valley” of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between mi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.
4 Dobrindt wants three things: that a car always choos property damage over personal injury; that it never distinguishes between humans bad on age or race; and that if a huma
n removes his or her hands from the driving wheel—to check email, say—the car’s maker is responsible if there is a crash.
5 connie“The change to the road traffic law will permit fully automatic driving,” says Dobrindt. 6 It will put fully driverless cars on an equal legal footing to human drivers, he says.
7 Who is responsible for the operation of such vehicles is not clear among car makers, consumers and lawyers. 8 “The liability issue is the biggest one of them all,” says Natasha Merat at the University of Leeds, UK.
8 An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human “be watchful and monitoring the road” at every moment.
increa是什么意思9 But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars. 10 “When you say ‘driverless cars’, people expect driverless cars.”Merat says. “You know—no driver.”
11 Becau of the confusion, Merat thinks some car makers will wait until vehicles can be fully automated without operation.
12 Driverless cars may end up being a form of public transport rather than vehicles you own, says Ryan Calo at Stanford University, California. 13 swear什么意思That is happening in the UK and Singapore, where government-provided driverless vehicles are being launched.
14 That would go down poorly in the US, however. 15 “The idea that the government would take over driverless cars and treat them as a public good would get absolutely nowhere here,” says Calo.
一．单词和短语Words and expressions
如何应对面试
miles awayautonomous /ɔːˈt新概念英语视频下载ɒnəməs/ adj.自治的；自主的
* liability /laɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ/ n. 责任；债务；
propo /prəˈpəʊz/ vi & vt. 建议；提议
* death valley死谷
mi-autonomous 半自治的
confusion /kənˈfjuːʒ希望英语官网n/ n. 混乱; 混淆; 困惑
* automate /ˈɔːtəmeɪt/ vt. 使自动化; 使自动操作
public good公益事业
get nowhere一事无成；无进展
proposal /prəˈpəʊzl/ handlebarn.建议；提议；求婚
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