When Toyota subsidiary Denso originally developed QR codes in their black and white form, they were meant to serve a functional use as a means to track auto parts.

当初日本丰田汽车公司(Toyota)的子公司日本电装公司(Denso)开发出黑白二维识别码只是为了跟踪汽车部件。

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A kind of system of auto-transporting loose black is developed, thus solving some problems of environmental pollution and personal injury due to the conventional control mode.

针对密炼机上辅机系统开发了一种自动输送炭黑系统，从而解决了传统的控制方式所带来的污染环境、对人体伤害的问题。

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So far, heavy-duty vehicles appear to be excluded, and either way, it's unclear how many years auto makers might have to work black boxes into their future models.

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That record was eventually broken by Call of Duty: Black Ops, but Grand Theft Auto remains a hugely powerful franchise in the industry, with 22 million copies of the fourth game sold to date.

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This is definitely going to be a hit on those people - black, white and otherwise - who have been depending upon the auto industry to give them that leg up in the middle class.

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