首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
In December, Waymo LLC, the leading driverless car company, brought out the world’s first commercial robo-taxi service. But for
In December, Waymo LLC, the leading driverless car company, brought out the world’s first commercial robo-taxi service. But for
admin
2022-08-22
52
问题
In December, Waymo LLC, the leading driverless car company, brought out the world’s first commercial robo-taxi service. But for now, the service is only available to about 400 test families in suburban Phoenix, and each of its converted Chrysler minivans still has a person at the wheel in case anything goes awry.
"It’s a pretty glaring indication that we’re not there yet," says Matthew Johnson-Roberson, co-director of the University of Michigan’s Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles, who’s working with automakers to develop robot rides. Waymo, owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc. and recently valued at $250 billion by Jefferies Research LLC, declined to comment. In a blog post, Chief Executive Officer John Krafcik said the human safety drivers were at work in Arizona to make riders feel more comfortable.
Waymo’s timid rollout is the latest speed bump for a technology touted as certain to save the world from road deaths. As auto and tech giants converge on Las Vegas for the consumer electronics show known as CES, which formally kicks off on Jan. 8 and includes a keynote from Krafcik, the seemingly boundless optimism that surrounded driverless cars only a few years ago has been tempered by a slew of persistent technological challenges and big questions about near-term business models, especially as a recession looms. "Most of the automakers are chasing a business model that has yet to be proven—that elusive robo-taxi," says Craig Giffi, head of consulting firm Deloitte’s U.S. automotive and industrial products practice.
At CES, driverless and auto technology will cover 300,000 square feet of floor space, more than the total size of many stand-alone car shows, and the auto industry is continuing to pour billions into self-driving cars. Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Hackett said in November that the market for autonomous vehicles and other mobility services could reach $10 trillion—half the size of U.S. gross domestic product. Annual sales of self-drivers will hit 33 million by 2040 and account for more than a quarter of global vehicle deliveries, according to researcher IHS Markit.
That’s why automakers and tech companies are rushing to get robots on the road. General Motors Co.’s Cruise Automation plans to debut its automated ride-hailing business in a U.S. city in 2019, and Ford promises to deploy tens of thousands of self-drivers on the streets of multiple U.S. cities in 2021 as part of a profitable business moving people and packages. Even Uber resumed testing its autonomous Volvos in December, only nine months after one struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz.
But a study from Deloitte suggests things will move more slowly than expected. Half of the 25,000 consumers Deloitte surveyed globally said they didn’t believe autonomous vehicles would be safe, up slightly from 47 percent a year ago. Just 39 percent of them trust automakers to bring the technology to market. Most surprising: Only 12 percent of U.S. consumers reported using services such as Uber and Lyft once a week, half the rate of a year ago. Taken together, the findings undermine the near-term business case for the robo-taxi, which relies on an ever-growing pool of consumers ditching their cars.
As long as human safety drivers are required, profits are out the window. "The economics of that don’t work out at all," says Johnson-Roberson, the University of Michigan technologist. He says the only way to remove safety drivers is to isolate autonomous cars in their own lanes, walled off from unpredictable humans. Among other things, driverless cars still struggle to merge into traffic.
(选自《彭博商业周刊》2019年1月7日)
According to the passage, which of the following statements about Waymo is NOT true?
选项
A、Waymo is a company which manufactures driverless cars.
B、Waymo is the first company which provides robo-taxi service for commercial purpose.
C、Waymo belongs to Google which is affiliated to Alphabet Inc.
D、Waymo admitted the assessment by Jefferies Research LLC.
答案
D
解析
细节题。第2段第2句提到的declined to comment是“拒绝发表评论”,因此D的表述有错,故选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/fqoYFFFM
本试题收录于:
CATTI二级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI二级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
Humanshavealwayslookedattheheavensand【C1】______aboutthenatureoftheobjectsseeninthenightsky.Withthedevelopmen
Peopleplayingviolentgamesmighthaveaggressivethoughtsforamoment.
Forpeoplebetweentheagesof18and25,theHRVshouldstayabove16.
GermanyMoonlighterEconomyToughtimesmeanworkingsecondjobsHebeginshisdayearly,inslacksandaniceshirt.Hee
Beforethecarwastowedtoawreckingyard,Morriswentthroughtoseeitonemoretime.
她们认为,“我也是”运动引发了一场公开指控,把本不该受到谴责的人与性犯罪者归为一类,却没有给他们自我辩护的机会。(place…inthesamecategoryas…)
Theytellthepeopleintheircommunitynottostoreapplesintherefrigeratorbecausefreshfruitlikeapplesis______.
Whilesomeinternationalcouriersareshowingsignsofexhaustion,EMS(ExpressMailService),thegenericnameforthecourier
Sheemergedsmilingtofacereportersassembledinthelobby,butshedidnotsaywhethertheytalkedaboutfabricatednews.
Thisarticleanalysesthenewlaw______ofwhichtheemployersandtheiraccountantsmighttakeadvantageandputforwardlegalm
随机试题
下列铝合金中()属于非热处理强化铝合金。
在UNIX文件管理系统中,设置内存打开文件结构主要是为了_______。
铸造全冠最常用的颈缘形态为
北京顺义区某单位在北京海关朝阳口岸办事处申报海运出口日本一批服装,由天津新港装船出境,则出口口岸为()。
下列不属于开始于两汉时期政治经济制度的是()。
生态文明是在生态危机日益严重的背景下,在对人的活动意义进行深刻反思之后提出的文化变革目标。早在19世纪,恩格斯在《自然辩证法》一书中就做出了警惕自然界报复的预言,并且说:“只有一个在其中有计划地进行生产和分配的自觉的社会生产组织,才能在社会关系方面把人从其
《民法典》第5条规定:“民事主体从事民事活动,应当遵循自愿原则,按照自己的意思设立、变更、终止民事法律关系。”请分析:本条规定的是民法基本原则中的什么原则?
下面的SQL语句能实现的功能是()。SELECT*FROM学生WHERE班级号=“0801”;UNION;SELECT*FROM学生WHERE班级号=“0802”
—DidyoulikethebookIgaveyou?—______thenovelsthatI’veread,Ienjoyedthisonethemost.
Whenthesentence"Theyhadmadeamessofthehouse"isturnedintopassivevoice,whichofthefollowingisCORRECT?
最新回复
(
0
)