地道表達(dá)
The first truly autonomous cars — vehicles that cruise the streets with no one behind the wheel — have finally arrived.
[vehicles]車輛
[cruise] 巡航
[behind the wheel]駕駛；掌舵运吓；主管渴邦；Waymo, which began life as Google’s self-driving car project, disclosed yesterday that it had let its driverless cars loose in parts of Phoenix, Arizona, with nobody in the front seats to take over in case of emergency.
[disclosed]公開；揭露拘哨；Members of the public taking part in a Waymo trial in the desert city in the US south-west will be able to summon the vehicles through a ride-hailing app “in the next few months”, the group said.
[summon]召喚谋梭；召集；
[ride-hailing]打車服務(wù)（hail：揮手呼叫,hail a taxi; ride 騎車倦青，乘車瓮床，Ann rides the bus to work.）Potentially one of the most disruptive new technologies, as well as one of the most hyped, driverless cars have been at the centre of a race between big automakers and technology companies. But while a number of groups are testing the technology on the streets with back-up drivers behind the wheel, most believe the advent of full autonomy is at least two years away.
[Potentially] 潛在的；可能的产镐；（hidden; latent; lurking;)
[disruptive] 顛覆性的隘庄；破壞的；分裂的
[hyped] 興奮的
[advent]出現(xiàn)癣亚；到來丑掺；The test, while limited to an unspecified area, is “not a one-time ride or a demo” but the start of “a new phase for Waymo and the history of this technology”, according to John Krafcik, head of Waymo, who announced the milestone at a tech conference in Lisbon yesterday. The company plans to expand it to the entire Phoenix region, he added, without giving a timeframe.
[unspecified]未指明的；未詳細(xì)說明的述雾；specified特定的（designated; indicated ;)
[timeframe]時(shí)間表;Google shocked the auto industry when it first disclosed a rudimentary version of its driverless technology seven years ago this week, and it subsequently invested more than $1bn in autonomous vehicle research.
[rudimentary]初步的（fundamental街州；elementary;)未充分發(fā)展的;
[subsequently]隨后兼丰；其后；后來唆缴；
[invested] 投資鳍征；花費(fèi)Rivals concede it still has a technology lead, though sceptics question whether the artificial intelligence is good enough to respond to the many unforeseen events that could occur on the road.
[Rivals] 競(jìng)爭(zhēng)者；對(duì)手面徽；競(jìng)爭(zhēng)艳丛；與 匹敵；（compete;contend;vie;)
rivalry:競(jìng)爭(zhēng)趟紊；對(duì)抗氮双；
[concede] 承認(rèn)；讓步织阳；
[sceptics]持懷疑態(tài)度的人眶蕉；“I’m concerned they’re following the traditional Silicon Valley mode of: let’s put something out in beta and fix it as we go along,” said John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a US advocacy group.
[beta] 測(cè)試Waymo believes it is the first company to reach a standard known in the driverless car world as level 4, meaning its cars can drive under full autonomy in preset areas that have been carefully mapped and tested.
Uber, General Motors, Delphi, BMW and others have been conducting testing to reach level 4, but all of them still keep a human in the driver’s seat.
[General Motors]通用汽車
[Delphi] 德爾福公司原為通用汽車公司的零部件子公司。1999年5月28日唧躲，德爾福正式與通用汽車公司分離造挽，成為一家完全獨(dú)立的、公開在紐約證券交易所上市的公司弄痹。
**[conduct]實(shí)施饭入；管理；引導(dǎo)肛真；表現(xiàn)谐丢；導(dǎo)電；（conduction：傳導(dǎo)）
專業(yè)知識(shí)
[Waymo] is an autonomous car development company and subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc.Google had begun testing the self-driving car project in 2009.
