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A self-driving truck has completed a delivery of goods for a company for the first time. The truck recently transported a full load of Budweiser beer in the western state of Colorado. The vehicle drove without the assistance of a driver for most of the 190-kilometer trip without problems. Otto, a company owned by the ride-sharing business Uber, operated the driverless truck. The truck carried about 50,000 cans of beer from the city of Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. During that time, the vehicle kept an average speed of about 89 kilometers per hour during the two-hour trip, Otto said. The company said a trained driver was inside the truck for the entire trip. But he only sat in front and drove the truck as it was entering and leaving the interstate highway. The rest of the time, he sat in a part of the truck used for relaxing and sleeping.
* self-driving = 자동운전, 자율주행/ goods(pl) = 상품, 제품/ transport = 수송하다/ a full load of ~ = ~을 가득 실은 짐/ assistance = 도움, 원조, 지원/ trained = 훈련받은, 숙달된/ interstate highway = 주간(州間) (간선) 고속 도로
Otto’s autonomous technology is designed for use only on highways. These wide roads do not have traffic stops or people crossing the road. The technology, including parts and software, can be added to existing trucks for about $30,000. Otto’s co-founder is Anthony Levandowski, a former self-driving car engineer for Google. He said he thinks the most important thing computers will do over the next ten years is drive cars and trucks for people. He added that his company is very concerned about safety. He said people should not be afraid to share the roads with Otto’s driverless trucks. “It’s like a train on software rails,” he explains. “When you see a vehicle driving with nobody in it, you will know that it’s very unlikely to get into a collision.”
* autonomous = 자율[자주]적인/ be concerned about[for, over] ~ = ~에 관심을 가지다, 걱정하다/ rails(주로 복수로) = (철도의) 레일/ vehicle = 차량, 탈것, 운송 수단/ unlikely (to do ~) = ~할[일] 것 같지 않은, 있음직하지[있을 것 같지] 않은/ get into ~ = (특정한 상태에) 처하다[처하게 만들다]/ collision = 충돌 (사고), 부딪침
