Difficulty level: Easy
Listen to the recording and complete gaps in the text below:
Self-driving Car
You know how much your telephone has changed over the past 10 years? Your car will change even more than that in the next 10 years.
- One of the big changes is that cars will drive _______________ . Some day you may not need to drive a car. You will just tell the car where you want to go and it will drive itself. “We _______________ have the technology for it now,” says Andrew Poliak of automotive technology supplier QNX. “We expect self-driving cars to be a _______________ thing between 2020 and 2025.”
- The American company Google has been working on a self-driving _______________ for years. These cars are already on the roads in the United States, mainly in California. Google cars are truly self-driving. These cars have no steering wheels or _______________ .
- Last week, police ordered one of Google’s cars to stop for driving too slowly on a public road. The car was not _______________ any law, so no one was punished. But police did speak with the operators of the _______________ . According to Google, its self-driving cars have been driven nearly 2 million kilometers. That is equal to the distance the _______________ person drives in 90 years. So far, no Google self-driving car has gotten a traffic ticket. Some of them have been in _______________ when other cars hit them.
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