In the 80s, a talking car like knight rider's kit was pure fiction.
80年代的电影《霹雳游侠》中会说话的汽车只是科幻故事。
"My electronic sensors picked up a destination signal..."
“我的电子传感器收到目标地点信号……”
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."
现在，智能汽车不再只是幻想。现代汽车正是电脑和车轮的组合。“在20世纪60,70年代，你总是听到人们幻想智能车比登月的设施还先进，现在成真了。”
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.
你只需要掀开引擎盖看一眼，比较一下66年的福特野马和04年的大众捷达便知。
"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."
“现在，几乎车内的一切设施都依赖于电脑系统，电脑控制引擎，监控设备，冷气扇……几乎涉及引擎盖下的一切”
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?"
电脑控制得越彻底，车辆就越容易修理。有时电脑对自身能进行自动修理。“因此，有时候电脑也过于有用了？”
"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，没错。你还是需要对爱车进行日常护理，检查。定期对车辆进行手动检查。”
But what about when things go wrong with the ultra-computer itself?
但如果是电脑系统出问题了呢？
"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."
“没人能说出是谁在汽车中设计使用了电子系统。是不同研究小组的不同人员共同向着这同一个目标努力，并设计出汽车的不同零部件。”
Some experts foresee the day when cars such as those in the moviedrive themselves.
许多专家都预见无人驾驶的智能汽车问世的一天。
"What kind of risks will it involve and will we see any fallout from that."
“智能汽车将带来怎样的风险，会有什么附加后果呢？”
The key they say is for drivers to remember who is behind the wheel. And act that way no matter how advanced the car.
避免智能车带来的负面影响只需要一点，就是驾驶者无论爱车有多先进，要始终牢记得坐在车子里面的是人，不管怎样都要爱惜生命。
Diana Alvear, ABC news, Chicago.
Diana Alvear芝加哥报道，ABC新闻注：本篇文章英文来自普特论坛，译文属秀哈英语原创，未经允许，请勿转载。
