It is now more than a decade since I took my first ride in a self-driving car. As a Google prototype zipped me around Mountain View in Silicon Valley, what promised to be an exhilarating taste of the future quickly became quite boring — the robot car was just such a smooth driver. A 2017 deadline for bringing autonomous vehicles to market, which was set in 2012 by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, seemed aggressive but not implausible.
自從我第一次乘坐自動駕駛汽車已經超過十年了。當時，谷歌的一個原型車在矽谷的山景城(Mountain View)載著我飛馳，原本承諾的令人振奮的未來體驗很快變得相當無聊——這輛機器人車開得實在太平穩了。谷歌聯合創辦人謝爾蓋•布林(Sergey Brin)在2012年設定的2017年將自動駕駛汽車推向市場的最後期限，雖然看似激進，但並非不可能。
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