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One of Google's self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month. There were no injuries.
上個月，在加利福利亞州，谷歌公司的一輛無人駕駛汽車撞到了一輛巴士。沒有人員受傷。
It is not the first time one of Google's famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash,
谷歌公司名聲在外的無人駕駛汽車并不是第一次卷入撞車事故中，
but it may be the first time it has caused one.
但是這是第一次由它引起的撞車事故。
On February 14th the self-driving car, travelling at 2mph (3km/h) , pulled out in front of a public bus going 15mph (24km/h) .
2月14日，這輛以每小時2英里（每小時3公里）的速度行駛的無人駕駛汽車，從一輛以每小時15英里（每小時24公里）的速度行駛的巴士前駛出。
The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out,
坐在谷歌公司汽車里的人報告說，他以為那輛巴士會減速讓汽車駛出，
and so he did not switch to the manual mode.
所以他沒有切換到手動模式。
In a statement, Google said: "We clearly bear some responsibility,
在一份聲明中，谷歌公司說：“我們很顯然要承擔一些責任，
because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a crash."
因為如果我們的車沒有移動，那么就不會出現撞車事故。”
That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic,
它說，“我們的測試司機認為那輛巴士會減速或停下來讓我們匯入車流，
and that there would be sufficient space to do that."
并且有足夠的空間做到那一點。”
The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the US,
該公司的無人駕駛汽車在美國已經成功地行駛了超過100萬英里，穿過了許多州，
and until now have only reported minor accidents.
直到現在為止只報告了一些小事故。
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
請根據你剛剛聽到的新聞報道回答問題1和問題2。
Question 1. According to Google, what was the cause of the accident?
問題1.根據谷歌公司的說法，這起事故的起因是什么？
Question 2. How have Google's self-driving cars performed so far?
問題2.谷歌公司的無人駕駛汽車到目前為止表現如何？
