15 B2 | 7. Klasse | READING | Transport and tourism one stretch of highway, engineers say, it’s easier to master another. But, (7) , even driving down a long, relatively straight highway is extraordinarily difficult. Delivering dinner orders across a neighbourhood is an even greater challenge. “This is one of the biggest technical challenges of our generation,” said Dave Ferguson, an early Google team engineer, (8) , pizzas and other goods. Mr. Ferguson said many thought self-driving technology would improve like an internet service or a smartphone app. But robotics is a lot more challenging. All things considered, it was wrong to claim anything else. “You need to have optimism to get up every day to try to solve a problem that has never been solved, and it’s not guaranteed that it ever will be solved,” he admitted. And I’m inclined to agree with him – there remain many obstacles to be overcome. A nobody can entirely predict what will happen in a test B contrary to popular belief C but it can’t match the human nerve needed for joining the Lincoln Tunnel in New York D that some researchers say is still years away from becoming the car industry’s next big thing E nobody questioned it would be very straightforward F who can help cars get around obstacles G worried about losing their money in pursuit of driverless technology H though that has actually been found to be very difficult to sustain I who is now president of Nuro, a company focussing on delivering groceries J who has worked on the driverless car project since 2009 K set up unrealistic expectations 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 D Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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