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From the Ted Talk by Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car

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As a boy, I loved cars. When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident. Like this. And then I decided I'd ddaeicte my life to saving one million peolpe every year. Now I haven't seueeccdd, so this is just a progress report, but I'm here to tell you a little bit about self-driving cars.

I saw the concept first in the drpaa Grand Challenges where the U.S. government issued a prize to build a self-driving car that could navgtiae a desert. And even though a hundred teams were there, these cars went nowhere. So we decided at Stanford to bulid a different self-driving car. We built the hardware and the software. We made it learn from us, and we set it free in the desert. And the unimaginable happened: it became the first car to ever rtruen from a DARPA Grand Challenge, winning Stanford 2 mliilon dollars. Yet I still hadn't saved a single life.

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As a boy, I loved cars. When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident. Like this. And then I decided I'd ________ my life to saving one million ______ every year. Now I haven't _________, so this is just a progress report, but I'm here to tell you a little bit about self-driving cars.

I saw the concept first in the _____ Grand Challenges where the U.S. government issued a prize to build a self-driving car that could ________ a desert. And even though a hundred teams were there, these cars went nowhere. So we decided at Stanford to _____ a different self-driving car. We built the hardware and the software. We made it learn from us, and we set it free in the desert. And the unimaginable happened: it became the first car to ever ______ from a DARPA Grand Challenge, winning Stanford 2 _______ dollars. Yet I still hadn't saved a single life.

Solution


  1. million
  2. people
  3. succeeded
  4. build
  5. dedicate
  6. return
  7. darpa
  8. navigate

Original Text


As a boy, I loved cars. When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident. Like this. And then I decided I'd dedicate my life to saving one million people every year. Now I haven't succeeded, so this is just a progress report, but I'm here to tell you a little bit about self-driving cars.

I saw the concept first in the DARPA Grand Challenges where the U.S. government issued a prize to build a self-driving car that could navigate a desert. And even though a hundred teams were there, these cars went nowhere. So we decided at Stanford to build a different self-driving car. We built the hardware and the software. We made it learn from us, and we set it free in the desert. And the unimaginable happened: it became the first car to ever return from a DARPA Grand Challenge, winning Stanford 2 million dollars. Yet I still hadn't saved a single life.

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