The technology raises the prospect of Britain becoming self-sufficient in renewable energy and drastically reducing its carbon dioxide emissions.

这项技术提高了英国在可再生能源方面实现自给自足和大幅减少二氧化碳排放的前景。

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California, home of Silicon Valley, recently proposed far more restrictive rules that would require human drivers be ready to take the wheel, and ban commercial use of self-driving technology.

硅谷之乡加州最近提出了更为严格的规定，要求人类驾驶员做好驾驶准备，并禁止将自动驾驶技术用于商业用途。

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China is getting more and more independent of western technology, and it is leading in many fields, such as the self-driving car industry.

中国越来越不依赖西方技术，在无人驾驶汽车行业等许多领域都处于领先地位。

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In the history of European clock technology, the monk is an early and very rare example of a self-acting automaton, one whose mechanism is wholly contained and hidden within its body.

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Military technology, unsurprisingly, is at the forefront of the march towards self-determining machines (see Technology Quarterly).

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In August, the U.S. Department of Transportation launched the first real-world test of connected vehicle technology critical for self-driving cars to operate safely in and around Ann Arbor, Mich.

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