英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力文摘 未來(lái)智能輪胎

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未來(lái)智能輪胎

Ya?l: My car is stupid, Don.

Don: What do you mean, Ya?l?

Y：I turn the key, the engine ignites. I turn the steering wheel, the wheels move. And that’s it!

D: Well, what you expect? That’s how a car works.

Y：I know, but cars are so rigidly mechanical, you know, it’s like when we removed the horses to make horseless carriages; they took away the only intelligent part of the carriages!

D: So you want to go back to the horse-baggage days?

Y：No, but it would be cool, if cars are more intelligent.

D: You mean like be able to sense things and react to them, like a horse mind?

Y：Right, actually there are designers and engineers at MIT working on a new kind of three-wheeled car–a new kind of wheel actually. It’s a sort of “smart” wheel that contains most of the mechanical parts of the car–drive train, suspension, and braking. And the wheels have artificial intelligence–they can sense obstructions and potholes in the road. And since these smart wheels can communicate with each other, they could allow cars in cities to move in flocks, like birds or sheep. Also, the wheels can turn 360 degrees, so the car can move in any direction.

D: That sounds kind of futurist. Do these kinds of cars actually exist?

Y：Sort of, there are computer models and prototypes, but it’s not like you can buy one at a car dealership.

D: Well, let me know when you can.

Ya?l: Don，我的汽車(chē)真“笨”。

Don: Ya?l，你什么意思?

Y：我擰車(chē)鑰匙，引擎發(fā)動(dòng)。我轉(zhuǎn)方向盤(pán)，輪胎轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)。就是這樣。

D:汽車(chē)都是這樣呀，你還想怎么樣呢?

Y：我明白，可是這也太機(jī)械化了吧。我們用汽車(chē)代替馬車(chē)，但是卻卸下了馬車(chē)唯一智能的部分。

D:那么，你想回到馬車(chē)時(shí)代?

Y：我不想，要是汽車(chē)能更智能就太好了!

D:你是說(shuō)能像馬一樣識(shí)別事物并做出反應(yīng)?

Y：沒(méi)錯(cuò)，事實(shí)上，麻省理工學(xué)院的設(shè)計(jì)師和工程師已經(jīng)在研究一種新型三輪車(chē)。這是種車(chē)的“智能”輪胎具備大部分汽車(chē)的機(jī)械部分功能——驅(qū)動(dòng)系統(tǒng)、懸置系統(tǒng)、制動(dòng)系統(tǒng)。輪胎人工智能：能識(shí)別障礙物和道路的坑洼。另外，智能輪胎能相互交流，讓車(chē)子像鳥(niǎo)和羊一樣成群結(jié)隊(duì)。輪胎還能360度轉(zhuǎn)彎，這樣車(chē)可以向任何方向移動(dòng)。

D:這聽(tīng)起來(lái)很前衛(wèi)，這種車(chē)確實(shí)存在嗎?

Y：算吧，已經(jīng)有計(jì)算機(jī)模型和汽車(chē)原型了，但是想在車(chē)行買(mǎi)到可能還不太現(xiàn)實(shí)。

D:那么，可以的時(shí)候別忘了告訴我。