时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2007年


英语课

Car thieves, beware. New technology could put the brakes on your getaway ride.


This vehicle is being slowed at the request of a law enforcement agency.


Coming soon, a feature to slow down stolen vehicles offered by General Motors in its Onstar communication system. It works like this - a driver with onstar reports the vehicle is gone. An operator works with law enforcement to locate it using GPS technology. Once found, the stolen vehicle slowdown kicks in, sending a signal to the power trans-system.


The accelerator doesn't work. The brakes work, power steering 2 works. Flashes come out outside the car.


Safely steer 1 the vehicle to the side of the road and place it in park. Law enforcement will soon arrive.


The worst that is gonna happen is it will coast gradually with a stop and there will be no high speed chase. Chases that often lead to property damage, even death, putting every one on the road at risk.


And then to disable it before that maniac 3 or that psychopath, drives it somewhere and crashes it into some innocent person or hurts that child. It's a phenomenal technology. I know this technology is gonna save lives.


For your safety, please remain inside the vehicle.


Onstar expects to conduct about 600 stolen vehicle slowdowns every year when this technology reaches full productions. Starting with the 2009 models about 20 GM vehicles including Chevrolet, available in the United States and Canada.


Attention driver, this vehicle's being slowed. Technology stopping stolen vehicles in their tracks. Lee Powell, The Associated Press, Washington.



1 steer
vt.驾驶,为…操舵;引导;vi.驾驶
  • If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车,我就来驾车。
  • It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。
2 steering
n.操舵装置
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration. 他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
  • Steering according to the wind, he also framed his words more amicably. 他真会看风使舵,口吻也马上变得温和了。
3 maniac
n.精神癫狂的人;疯子
  • Be careful!That man is driving like a maniac!注意!那个人开车像个疯子一样!
  • You were acting like a maniac,and you threatened her with a bomb!你像一个疯子,你用炸弹恐吓她!
学英语单词
-chroic
abbreviated combined relation condition
act of settlement
address, line
air charge
alkali-proof
anhormonia
antiallergics
ASTROC
at a halt
bar code scanner
Barlavento
battened steel column
beat down
Beta-D-Fructopyranose
binaural time difference
black oakum
borehole transportation
brohanski
bulb of hair
butyr
caiacidol
casting -out-9 check
catch sb at vantage
Cerezo de Riotirón
Cleveland County
coefficient comparison
compression atrophy
conduct a defence
congenital disability
convergent homeomorphy
core composser
Crouch, R.
Cryptostropin
cultural access group
cyclone smelting chamber
cypsela
disadjust
double ram type
emergency exercise
ethnically-baseds
feeder current
foreland grits
frontalysis
Garrettsville
genus cotinuss
harderian gland (or harder's gland)
HEDTA
helicoidal sifting machine
hidden inventory
hold-your-breath
hydrodynamicists
hydropipers
interbinary
intercessionated
isotopic noise
Jatzke
kelberite
key bindings
kintours
kowloon
Krama
last-moment
lavalli
legatura
loose skein
m. obturator externus
marine flux-gate magnetometer
medium-speed
middle perpendicular
mopfs
movement area
murraya koenigii (l.) spreng
Neath, River
noncondensable gas purger
oil press
ossmodula
patricentric
pencases
pirated river
piston rod oil cup
properties of product
propleuron
Puhi
put together
reflexivizes
retroglossal
rudall
Rymättylä
senatorical
sexualist
solum
straight nose
strapped into
superior ligament of malleus
symmetrical four-pole sounding
tanninoids
thorium-uranium fuel cycle
total concentration
very fine columnur aggregate
vibratory sensibility
watermeal