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Robotics 11
Reading and Vocabulary
A. Discuss with a partner.
1. How would you feel about travelling in
a self-driving car?
2. What do you think are the advantages
of self-driving vehicles?
3. Why do you think some people might
be concerned about them?
B. Complete the sentences using the words in the boxes.
autonomous data devices input manufacturer programmed prototype software
1. The concept of vehicles has been around since the 1920s.
2. Waymo is a which developed a self-driving taxi service in Arizona.
3. A Russian company, Yandex, tested their for a self-driving taxi in 2018.
4. How a self-driving vehicle is , is more important than its physical structure.
5. Self-driving vehicles will be able to communicate with other , such as traffic-monitoring
cameras.
6. Self-driving vehicles require minimal human .
7. There are concerns that cybercriminals could hack into a vehicle’s .
8. Many people are unhappy that their travel would be shared with other vehicles.
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