“无人驾驶”带来巨大商机（1）

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.第一遍 边听边看原文并且试着理解红色单词

1、But reductions in traffic will make living in currentlycongestedareas more attractive and hence morepopulous.

2、Miles travelled per person might also rise, since self-driving technology frees passengers to use travel time for work or sleep.

3、And just as new highways prompt a rise in transport-intensive business,driverless vehicles could generate lots of new road-using activity.

4、Where now a worker mightpop intothe coffee shop before going to work, for example, a latte might soon be delivered in a driverless vehicle.

5、The technology of driverless cars may make us safer and more productive,but not necessarily lesstraffic-bound.

6、It might, however, improve traffic by making it easier, politically, to imposetollson roads.

7、Jamsoccur because a scarce resource, the road, is underpriced, so more people drive than it can accommodate.

8、But tolls could favour use of the roadway by those who value it most.

9、Some places already use such charges—London and Singapore are examples—but they are rarely popular.

10、Some driversbalk at （回避）paying for what they once got for nothing, and others are uneasy about the tracking of private vehicles that efficient pricing requires.

11、People seem not toobject topaying by the mile when they are bring driven—by taxis and services like Uber and Lyft—and the driverless programmes now being tested by Waymo and GM follow this model.

12、If a driverless world is one in which people generally buy rides rather than cars, then not only might fewer unnecessary journeys be made, but also political resistance to road-pricing could ease, and congestion with it.

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第二遍 对照红色单词

congested：[kən'dʒɛstɪd] adj.堵塞的，拥挤的

v.挤满；超负荷（congest的过去分词）

populous：['pɑpjələs] adj.人口稠密的

pop into：匆匆地走进

toll：[tol] n.通行费

jam：[dʒæm] n.拥挤;果酱

balk at：回避，畏缩

object to：对…反对

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第三遍 中英对照

1、But reductions in traffic will make living in currentlycongestedareas more attractive and hence morepopulous.

但是，交通拥堵的缓解将使现有拥堵的区域更具吸引力，因此人口也会更加密集。

2、Miles travelled per person might also rise, since self-driving technology frees passengers to use travel time for work or sleep.

每人驾驶的英里数可能也会增加，因为自主驾驶技术使乘客腾出时间用来工作或睡觉。

3、And just as new highways prompt a rise in transport-intensive business,driverless vehicles could generate lots of new road-using activity.

同时，由于新的高速路促进了运输密集行业的增加，无人驾驶汽车能够催生更多新的公路活动。

4、Where now a worker mightpop intothe coffee shop before going to work, for example, a latte might soon be delivered in a driverless vehicle.

例如，现在的工作人员在上班之前可能会去咖啡店，不久以后一杯拿铁可能就可以由一辆无人驾驶汽车中送到。

5、The technology of driverless cars may make us safer and more productive,but not necessarily lesstraffic-bound.

无人驾驶的技术可能使会让我们更安全，更有成效，但是并不一定是更少的交通出行。

6、It might, however, improve traffic by making it easier, politically, to imposetollson roads.

7、Jamsoccur because a scarce resource, the road, is underpriced, so more people drive than it can accommodate.

然而，可以通过在政治上更简单征收公路通行费来改善交通情况。

因为公路这一稀缺资源定价太低，因此驾驶的人数超出其可容纳的范围，拥堵就发生了。

8、But tolls could favour use of the roadway by those who value it most.

9、Some places already use such charges—London and Singapore are examples—but they are rarely popular.

但是，收费可能有利于那些最重视道路的人使用道路。

一些地方已经使用过此类收费——比如伦敦和新加坡——但是它们并不受欢迎。

10、Some driversbalk at （回避）paying for what they once got for nothing, and others are uneasy about the tracking of private vehicles that efficient pricing requires.

一些司机很不情愿地为他们之前可以免费使用的资源付费，其他人则对有效定价所需的私人车辆追踪感到不安。

11、People seem not toobject topaying by the mile when they are bring driven—by taxis and services like Uber and Lyft—and the driverless programmes now being tested by Waymo and GM follow this model.

当人们乘坐出租车和使用像Uber和Lyft一样的服务时，似乎并不反对按公里收费，现在由Maymo和GM测试的无人驾驶程序正在沿用这个模式.

12、If a driverless world is one in which people generally buy rides rather than cars, then not only might fewer unnecessary journeys be made, but also political resistance to road-pricing could ease, and congestion with it.

如果无人驾驶的世界是一个人们通常购买里程而不是汽车的世界，那么不仅可能减少不必要的旅程，而且可以缓解道路定价的政治阻力，同时缓解了拥堵。

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注：原文（英文部分）来自经济学人

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