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In the 80s, a talking car like knight rider's kit was pure fiction.
80年代的電影《霹靂游俠》中會說話的汽車只是科幻故事。
"My electronic sensors picked up a destination signal..."
“我的電子傳感器收到目標地點信號……”
Not anymore. Modern cars are really computers on wheels. "You often hear the quotes about how they are more advanced than the space machinary that got us to the moon, back in the 1960s and 1970s. And that's true."
現在，智能汽車不再只是幻想。現代汽車正是電腦和車輪的組合。“在20世紀60,70年代，你總是聽到人們幻想智能車比登月的設施還先進，現在成真了。”
It takes just one look under the hood to see for yourself. Compare the machinary of this 1966 Ford, Mustang, to this, 2004 Volkswagen, Jetta.
你只需要掀開引擎蓋看一眼，比較一下66年的福特野馬和04年的大眾捷達便知。
"Almost everything in a car relies on a computer, one kind or another now. You have the engine control monitor which controls the engine functions, the cooling fan, everything under the hood pretty much."
“現在，幾乎車內的一切設施都依賴于電腦系統，電腦控制引擎，監控設備，冷氣扇……幾乎涉及引擎蓋下的一切”
Mechanics say the more they are computerized, the easier they are to fix. Sometimes, they even fix themselves. "So the computer can sometimes be a little too helpful?"
電腦控制得越徹底，車輛就越容易修理。有時電腦對自身能進行自動修理。“因此，有時候電腦也過于有用了？”
"Yes, exactly. you still have to do your maintance, you still have to check. Follow the manual about things that have to be changed in certain specific intervals."
“是的，沒錯。你還是需要對愛車進行日常護理，檢查。定期對車輛進行手動檢查。”
But what about when things go wrong with the ultra-computer itself?
但如果是電腦系統出問題了呢？
"There is nobody, no person to point to who designs the electronic system. There are multiple people in multiple teams all coordinating their efforts to design any different part of the vehicle."
“沒人能說出是誰在汽車中設計使用了電子系統。是不同研究小組的不同人員共同向著這同一個目標努力，并設計出汽車的不同零部件。”
Some experts foresee the day when cars such as those in the moviedrive themselves.
許多專家都預見無人駕駛的智能汽車問世的一天。
"What kind of risks will it involve and will we see any fallout from that."
“智能汽車將帶來怎樣的風險，會有什么附加后果呢？”
The key they say is for drivers to remember who is behind the wheel. And act that way no matter how advanced the car.
避免智能車帶來的負面影響只需要一點，就是駕駛者無論愛車有多先進，要始終牢記得坐在車子里面的是人，不管怎樣都要愛惜生命。
Diana Alvear, ABC news, Chicago.
Diana Alvear芝加哥報道，ABC新聞
注：本篇文章英文來自普特論壇，譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，請勿轉載。
