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1. According to the article, how does public perception of the safety of autonomous vehicles compare to that of conventional cars?

A) It is more forgiving.

B) It is harsher.

C) It is the same.

D) It is based on personal experience rather than media portrayal.

无注释原文：

How robotaxis are trying to win passengers' trust

From: BBC, Nov 18, 2024

Autonomous vehicles are already clocking up millions of miles on public roads, but they face an uphill battle to convince people to climb in to enjoy the ride.

A few weeks ago, I took a tour of San Francisco in one of Waymo's self-driving cars. As we drove around the city, one thing that struck me was how comfortable people had become with not seeing a driver. Not only were there multiple driverless vehicles on any given street at any given time, but tourists no longer had their mouths agape as one drove by.

The technology has become a familiar sight.

Inside the vehicle itself, there were signs of how Waymo is trying to inspire a similar feeling among their passengers. The all-electric car offers a warm welcome to passengers by name and plays music as they climb inside. A screen positioned in front of the rear seats offers those along for the ride the option of seeing a follow-along map of the route, as well as settings for temperature and music. Another screen beside the steering wheel shows images of what's around the vehicle. As we drive, I can see people sitting inside buses alongside us, dogs crossing the street ahead and children skipping along the sidewalk.

Waymo wants you to see what the vehicle can – it wants you to trust it.

It is part of a wider trend within the autonomous ride-hailing industry. The technology allowing these self-driving vehicles to weave their way through busy city traffic is being used out there in a handful of cities around the world. What Waymo and its competitors need to do is to convince passengers to climb inside them.

Yet, research seems to suggest that the public in the US and the UK are reticent about riding in self-driving vehicles, with safety being among the most common concerns. A lot of it comes down to the trust people are willing to place in the technology and the companies that build the vehicles. But also there seems to be a higher bar when it comes to attitudes on the safety of autonomous vehicles compared to conventional cars.

For Waymo, the solution is to instill confidence in the robotic systems driving the vehicle.

"There is something very important about being able to know where the car is going, that the car sees what you're seeing," says Megan Neese, Waymo's head of product and customer research, from beside me during our tour of San Francisco. The company plans to keep the seats forward-facing with a steering wheel in its next generation car, she says. It's a familiar set-up in traditional taxis and that ability to see where the car is going helps people trust the car, she says.

But the biggest battleground in the robotaxi race may be winning public trust. With many different approaches on offer, it may be some time before the less adventurous paying passengers feel happy enough to sit back and enjoy the ride.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为BBC官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

How robotaxis are trying to win passengers' trust

From: BBC, Nov 18, 2024

Autonomous vehicles are already clocking up millions of miles on public roads, but they face an uphill battle to convince people to climb in to enjoy the ride.

自动驾驶汽车已经在路上有了数百万英里的行驶经验，但要说服人们上车享受驾驶乐趣，还有很长一段路要走。

clock sth up表示“赢得，获得（大量的某物）”，英文解释为“to win or achieve a large number of similar things”举个🌰：They have clocked up three gold medals and two silvers in the swimming events. 在游泳项目上，他们获得3枚金牌和两枚银牌。

uphill /ˌʌpˈhɪl/ 1）表示“上坡（的）；向山上（的）；朝上坡方向（的）”，英文解释为“leading to a higher place on a slope”如：an uphill climb 向上的攀爬；

2）表示“费力的，艰难的”，英文解释为“needing a large amount of effort”举个🌰：It'll be an uphill struggle/battle/fight to get the new proposals accepted. 要让新的提案获得通过会很艰难。

📍an uphill battle字面意思，“一场艰难的斗争”，在这里可以理解为努力克服困难的过程，表达一种难以解决问题的努力状态。If you refer to something as an uphill struggle or an uphill battle, you mean that it requires a great deal of effort and determination, but it should be possible to achieve it.

A few weeks ago, I took a tour of San Francisco in one of Waymo's self-driving cars. As we drove around the city, one thing that struck me was how comfortable people had become with not seeing a driver. Not only were there multiple driverless vehicles on any given street at any given time, but tourists no longer had their mouths agape as one drove by.

几周前，我乘坐Waymo的一辆自动驾驶汽车游览了旧金山。当我们开车绕城行驶时，令我印象深刻的一件事是，人们在看不到司机的情况下非常自在。不仅在任何特定时间任何特定街道上都有多辆无人驾驶汽车，而且当一辆无人驾驶的汽车驶过时，游客也不再惊讶地张大嘴巴。

agape /əˈɡeɪp/ 表示“（尤指表示惊奇或震惊而）大张着嘴的”，英文解释为“with the mouth open, especially showing surprise or shock”举个🌰：We watched, our mouths agape in excitement. 我们看着，兴奋得张大了嘴。

The technology has become a familiar sight.

这说明这项技术已成为人们所熟悉的景象。

Inside the vehicle itself, there were signs of how Waymo is trying to inspire a similar feeling among their passengers. The all-electric car offers a warm welcome to passengers by name and plays music as they climb inside. A screen positioned in front of the rear seats offers those along for the ride the option of seeing a follow-along map of the route, as well as settings for temperature and music. Another screen beside the steering wheel shows images of what's around the vehicle. As we drive, I can see people sitting inside buses alongside us, dogs crossing the street ahead and children skipping along the sidewalk.

在车内，种种迹象表明Waymo在努力激发乘客的良好体验。这辆全电动汽车以名字热烈欢迎乘客上车，并在乘客爬上车时播放音乐。后排座椅前方的萤幕可让乘客选择观看随行路线地图，以及设定温度和音乐。方向盘旁的另一个画面显示车辆周围的影像。当我们开车时，我可以看到有人坐在我们旁边的巴士内，狗在前面过马路，孩子们在人行道上跳跃。

作形容词，表示“后部的；后面的；背部的”，英文解释为“at the back of something”举个🌰：There's a sticker on the rear door/window. 后门/后窗户上贴着一张纸条。

作动词，表示“抚养；养育；培养”，英文解释为“to care for young children or animals until they are fully grown”举个🌰：She reared a family of five on her own. 她一个人养活五个孩子。

作名词，the rear表示“后面；后部；背部”，英文解释为“the back part of something”举个🌰：We walked round to the rear of the house. 我们绕道走到房子的后面。

steering wheel /ˈstɪə.rɪŋ ˌwiːl/ 表示“方向盘”，英文解释为“a wheel in a vehicle that the driver turns in order to make the vehicle go in a particular direction”

sidewalk /ˈsaɪd.wɔːk/ 表示“人行道”，英文解释为“a path with a hard surface on one or both sides of a road, that people walk on”举个🌰：Keep on the sidewalk. 沿着人行道走。

Waymo wants you to see what the vehicle can – it wants you to trust it.

Waymo希望人们看到自动驾驶车辆的能力，并希望更多人能信任它。

It is part of a wider trend within the autonomous ride-hailing industry. The technology allowing these self-driving vehicles to weave their way through busy city traffic is being used out there in a handful of cities around the world. What Waymo and its competitors need to do is to convince passengers to climb inside them.

这是自动驾驶乘车行业大趋势中的一部分。允许这些自动驾驶车辆在繁忙的城市交通中自在穿行的技术，已经在全球几个城市开始使用。Waymo及其竞争对手最需要做的是说服乘客爬进车里。

hail /heɪl/ 作动词 1）表示“招呼，呼喊”，英文解释为“to call someone in order to attract their attention”举个🌰：Shall we hail a taxi? 我们要叫出租车吗？

2）hail sb/sth as sth 表示“把…称赞为，把…誉为”，英文解释为“to describe sb/sth as being very good or special, especially in newspapers, etc.”举个🌰：The conference was hailed as a great success. 会议被称颂为一次巨大的成功。

hail作不可数名词，表示“雹，冰雹”，英文解释为“small, hard balls of ice that fall from the sky like rain”，hailstones 通常复数，表示“冰雹，雹子”，英文解释为“a small, hard ball of ice that falls from the sky like rain”

📍ride-hailing 表示“约车，叫车”，英文解释为“used for or involved in the activity of asking for a car and driver to come immediately and take you somewhere”举个🌰：Do you use a ride-hailing app? 你用约车APP吗？

weave /wiːv/ 1）表示“编，编织；编制，编成”，英文解释为“to twist long objects together, or to make something by doing this”举个🌰：We were shown how to roughly weave ferns and grass together to make a temporary shelter. 有人给我们演示了如何将蕨类植物和草简单地编起来，搭成临时的栖身之所。

2）表示“（通过糅合不同的事物）编写；编造”，英文解释为“to form something from several different things or to combine several different things, in a complicated or skilled way”举个🌰：The biography is woven from the many accounts which exist of things she did. 该传记是根据大量现存的对她的事迹的记载编写而成的。

3）表示“（尤指为避开障碍）迂回行进，穿行”，英文解释为“to go or make a path by moving quickly and changing direction often, especially to avoid hitting things”举个🌰：The boy weaved through/between/in and out of stationary traffic on a bicycle. 那个男孩骑着自行车在静止的车流中迂回穿行。

Yet, research seems to suggest that the public in the US and the UK are reticent about riding in self-driving vehicles, with safety being among the most common concerns. A lot of it comes down to the trust people are willing to place in the technology and the companies that build the vehicles. But also there seems to be a higher bar when it comes to attitudes on the safety of autonomous vehicles compared to conventional cars.

然而，研究似乎表明，美国和英国的民众对乘坐自动驾驶汽车持谨慎态度，安全是最常见的担忧之一。这个问题其实很大程度上取决于人们对科技和车辆制造公司的信任。但与传统汽车相比，人们对自动驾驶汽车安全性的标准也要求更高。

reticent /ˈret.ɪ.sənt/ 表示“沉默寡言的；不愿交谈的”，英文解释为“unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings”举个🌰：Most of the students were reticent about answering questions. 大多数学生都不愿回答问题。

作名词，表示“条状物”，英文解释为“a substance that has been made into a solid rectangular shape”如：a bar of soap 一块肥皂，a chocolate bar 一条巧克力棒。

作动词，表示“禁止，阻止”，英文解释为“If someone is barred from a place or from doing something, they are officially forbidden to go there or to do it.”举个🌰：The players are barred from drinking alcohol the night before a match. 运动员在参赛前夜不得喝酒。

🎬电影《逆转王牌》（Runner Runner）中的台词提到：He said I'd be barred from re-entering the country.他说我下次回国时会被禁止入境。

📍set the bar high/low = put the bar high/low 表示设定高/低标准、高/低要求（to set a high/low standard for something）

conventional /kənˈven.ʃən.əl/ 表示“传统的；常规的；普通的”，英文解释为“traditional and ordinary”如：conventional behaviour 传统行为，conventional clothes 传统服装。

A lot of it comes down to the trust people are willing to place in the technology and the companies that build the vehicles.这个问题其实很大程度上取决于人们对科技和车辆制造公司的信任。

这个句子咋一看好像两个动词，实际上主干句是：A lot of it comes down to the trust. 很大程度上，这归结于信任。comes down to 固定短语，意为“归根结底是”“关键在于”。a lot of it指代前文提到的“公众对自动驾驶汽车的犹豫”。

修饰部分：people are willing to place in the technology and the companies that build the vehicles. 人们愿意对技术及制造车辆的公司给予的（信任）。这部分是定语从句，修饰the trust，省略了关系代词that/which，完整形式：the trust [that/which] people are willing to place...

For Waymo, the solution is to instill confidence in the robotic systems driving the vehicle.

对Waymo公司来说，解决方案就是要让人们对驾驶车辆的机器人系统充满信心。

英式 instil 美式 instill表示“逐渐灌输；逐步培养（感受、思想或行为）”，英文解释为“to put a feeling, idea, or principle gradually into someone's mind, so that it has a strong influence on the way that person thinks or behaves”举个🌰：It is part of a teacher's job to instil confidence in/into his or her students. 教师的部分职责是逐渐培养学生的信心。

🎬电影《梅茜的世界》（What Maisie Knew）中的台词提到：They're supposed to instill cooperation and pacifism. 他们应该灌输了合作与和平主义思想。

"There is something very important about being able to know where the car is going, that the car sees what you're seeing," says Megan Neese, Waymo's head of product and customer research, from beside me during our tour of San Francisco. The company plans to keep the seats forward-facing with a steering wheel in its next generation car, she says. It's a familiar set-up in traditional taxis and that ability to see where the car is going helps people trust the car, she says.

在我们的旧金山之旅期间，Waymo产品和客户研究主管梅根·尼斯（Megan Neese）在我旁边说道，“能够知道汽车要去哪里，让汽车看到你所看到的东西，这一点非常重要。”她说，该公司计划在下一代汽车中将座椅保持在前向状态，并配有方向盘，因为这是传统计程车常见的设置，能够看到汽车要去哪里有助于人们信任汽车。

set-up表示“组织结构；事物安排；体制；设置”，英文解释为“the way in which things are organized or arranged”举个🌰：When I started my new job, it took me a while to get used to the set-up. 我开始新工作的时候，花了一段时间才适应这种组织形式。

But the biggest battleground in the robotaxi race may be winning public trust. With many different approaches on offer, it may be some time before the less adventurous paying passengers feel happy enough to sit back and enjoy the ride.

但自动驾驶出租车竞赛中最大的战场可能是赢得公众的信任。由于市场提供多种选择，或许需要一段时间，才能让不那么爱冒险的付费乘客感到满意，愿意坐下来轻松乘车，享受旅程。

表示“可以买的；可以用的”，英文解释为“available to be bought or used”举个🌰：We were amazed at the range of products on offer. 有这么多产品可选，我们很惊讶。

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Agape, the reticent driver clocked up miles uphill, hands on the rear-set steering wheel. Weaving past bars and sidewalks, the ride-hailing set-up defied conventional norms, instilled ease, and showcased all that tech had on offer.

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