On Wednesday morning, during Google's annual meeting, a shareholder named John M. Simpson stood up to question the company's top executives about its self-driving car program.

For now, I'll just say that the A7 self-driving car and I are frenemies.

现在，我只能说A7自动驾驶汽车与我是“亦敌亦友”的关系。

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Uber is working on the self-driving car technology, and Google expanded its tests in July to Austin, Tex.

Uber正在研发自动驾驶汽车技术，谷歌也于今年7月把测试扩展到了德克萨斯州的奥斯汀。

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Acquiring HERE, then, would help Uber more quickly realize a future where driverless cars get us all from A to B without us batting an eyelash.

收购HERE以后，Uber就能更快地实现自动驾驶汽车的未来，人们不必双眼一眨不眨地盯着路况就能从A地来到B地了。

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In July, German rival BMW teamed up with Israeli sensor maker Mobileye to produce autonomous cars over the next decade.

今年七月，德国竞争对手宝马（BMW）联手以色列传感器厂商Mobileye，拟在未来10年生产自动驾驶汽车。

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The self-driving autonomous car may become reality by 2020, as experts believe, but no one need wait for its GPS systems and laser radar to become commercialized until it gets here.

有专家相信，到2020年自动驾驶汽车将成为现实，但是现实中没有人想等到自动驾驶汽车的GPS系统和激光雷达完全成熟了再买车。

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GM last week laid out plans to take on Google and Apple in self-driving cars, saying it was well placed to be a' disrupter."

通用汽车（GM）上周制定了计划，将与谷歌（Google）和苹果在自动驾驶汽车领域展开竞争，通用表示，它已准备好成为一名“颠覆者”。

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The firm has filed a patent that describes how passengers in autonomous vehicles could pass the time with VR headsets.

近日，该公司提交了一份专利申请书，描述了乘客在自动驾驶汽车上如何通过虚拟现实（VR）头戴式受话器来打发时间。

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Moore pretty much anticipated the personal computer, the cellphone, self-driving cars, the iPad, Big Data and the Apple Watch.

基本上，摩尔这是预言了个人电脑、手机、自动驾驶汽车、iPad、大数据和Apple Watch的出现。

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Uber began rolling out its self-driving cars in Pittsburgh.

Uber开始在匹兹堡推出自动驾驶汽车。

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What was once an easy punch line in parodies of Silicon Valley is now a fixture on Google's corporate campus.

以前人们奚落硅谷时，总会开自动驾驶汽车的玩笑，而现在，它已经是谷歌（Google）公司园区里的一款代步工具。

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GM has made bolder bets, paying$ 581m for Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based autonomous driving company;

通用汽车做出了更大胆的押注，向总部位于旧金山的自动驾驶汽车公司Cruise Automation投资5.81亿美元；

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Drive.ai is beginning a test near its Mountain View headquarters of autonomous cars fitted with digital signage on their roofs.

Drive.ai公司正在位于山景城（Mountain View）的总部附近对车顶装有数字显示屏的自动驾驶汽车进行测试。

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Self-driving cars and trucks controlled by AI will also take away the driver's jobs in the future.

人工智能控制的自动驾驶汽车和卡车也将在未来取代司机的工作。

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While much of the debate so far has been focused on the safety of driverless cars ( and rightfully so), policymakers also should be talking about how self-driving vehicles can help reduce traffic jams, cut emissions and offer more convenient, affordable mobility options ．

虽然到目前为止大部分争论都集中在无人驾驶汽车的安全性上（这是理所当然的）,但决策者们也应该研究如何让自动驾驶汽车帮忙减少交通堵塞、减少排放并提供更方便、更实惠的出行选择。

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But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars ．

但这并不是大部分人想到自动驾驶汽车时脑中的画面。

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The fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

几代人对于自动驾驶汽车的态度似乎没有多大差别，这一事实表明了使用无人驾驶小轿车这一变革之巨大。

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The original author of this best-selling novel, Luoluo, turned her role into the director of this upcoming film. The director of Love is Not Blind, Teng Huatao is the producer of this film.

电影改编自畅销小说作家落落同名小说，同时也是落落首次担任导演，《失恋三十三天》导演滕华涛担任监制。

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This deadline will be extended only in exceptional circumstances.

只有在特殊情况下才会延长最后期限。

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I might have been disposed to like him in other circumstances

若是处于另一番情形的话，我可能会倾心于他。

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There are circumstances in which the State must step in to protect children.

有些情况下，国家必须出面保护儿童。

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