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From the Ted Talk by Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So in 1885, Karl Benz invented the automobile. Later that year, he took it out for the first pibluc test drive, and — true story — crashed into a wall. For the last 130 yreas, we've been wnkriog around that least reliable part of the car, the driver. We've made the car sontgrer. We've added seat belts, we've added air bags, and in the last decade, we've actually started trying to make the car smarter to fix that bug, the driver.

Now, today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the difference between pictnahg around the problem with driver asanitssce systems and actually having fully self-driving cars and what they can do for the world. I'm also going to talk to you a little bit about our car and allow you to see how it sees the world and how it reacts and what it does, but first I'm going to talk a little bit about the problem. And it's a big problem: 1.2 million people are killed on the world's raods every year. In America alone, 33,000 people are keilld each year. To put that in perspective, that's the same as a 737 falling out of the sky every working day. It's kind of ubelelaivbne. Cars are sold to us like this, but really, this is what driving's like. Right? It's not sunny, it's rainy, and you want to do anything other than drive. And the reason why is this: tariffc is getting worse. In America, between 1990 and 2010, the vehicle miles tlrevead increased by 38 percent. We grew by six percent of roads, so it's not in your branis. Traffic really is substantially wosre than it was not very long ago.

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So in 1885, Karl Benz invented the automobile. Later that year, he took it out for the first ______ test drive, and — true story — crashed into a wall. For the last 130 _____, we've been _______ around that least reliable part of the car, the driver. We've made the car ________. We've added seat belts, we've added air bags, and in the last decade, we've actually started trying to make the car smarter to fix that bug, the driver.

Now, today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the difference between ________ around the problem with driver __________ systems and actually having fully self-driving cars and what they can do for the world. I'm also going to talk to you a little bit about our car and allow you to see how it sees the world and how it reacts and what it does, but first I'm going to talk a little bit about the problem. And it's a big problem: 1.2 million people are killed on the world's _____ every year. In America alone, 33,000 people are ______ each year. To put that in perspective, that's the same as a 737 falling out of the sky every working day. It's kind of ____________. Cars are sold to us like this, but really, this is what driving's like. Right? It's not sunny, it's rainy, and you want to do anything other than drive. And the reason why is this: _______ is getting worse. In America, between 1990 and 2010, the vehicle miles ________ increased by 38 percent. We grew by six percent of roads, so it's not in your ______. Traffic really is substantially _____ than it was not very long ago.

Solution


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  3. years
  4. traveled
  5. unbelievable
  6. public
  7. worse
  8. stronger
  9. patching
  10. assistance
  11. brains
  12. roads
  13. traffic

Original Text


So in 1885, Karl Benz invented the automobile. Later that year, he took it out for the first public test drive, and — true story — crashed into a wall. For the last 130 years, we've been working around that least reliable part of the car, the driver. We've made the car stronger. We've added seat belts, we've added air bags, and in the last decade, we've actually started trying to make the car smarter to fix that bug, the driver.

Now, today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the difference between patching around the problem with driver assistance systems and actually having fully self-driving cars and what they can do for the world. I'm also going to talk to you a little bit about our car and allow you to see how it sees the world and how it reacts and what it does, but first I'm going to talk a little bit about the problem. And it's a big problem: 1.2 million people are killed on the world's roads every year. In America alone, 33,000 people are killed each year. To put that in perspective, that's the same as a 737 falling out of the sky every working day. It's kind of unbelievable. Cars are sold to us like this, but really, this is what driving's like. Right? It's not sunny, it's rainy, and you want to do anything other than drive. And the reason why is this: Traffic is getting worse. In America, between 1990 and 2010, the vehicle miles traveled increased by 38 percent. We grew by six percent of roads, so it's not in your brains. Traffic really is substantially worse than it was not very long ago.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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