雙語美文：《Whatislife’sbiggesttrappeoplefallinto》

1、雙語美文：生活中人們陷入的最大“騙局”是什么?Imagine you are 50 years in the future. You come to a car-sales event to pu rchase your very first self-driving aut op ilot car.想象一下你生活在 50年以后的未來，你到一個汽車展銷會上買你的第一輛全自動無人駕駛汽車。These cars will revolutionize road safety, having far better reaction sp eeds and sp lit-second decision-

2、making cap abilities than a human driver.這些車將徹底改變道路安全，有遠(yuǎn)超司機(jī)的反應(yīng)速度和瞬間決定能力。However, the sales agent expl ained to you that in the extremely rare event of an unavoidable accident, it will sacrifice you if it can save more people and minimize life casualties as a result.然而銷售人員向你解釋說，在極少數(shù)不可避免發(fā)生事故的情況下會犧牲掉你以

3、挽救更多的人，以便將所造成的人身傷害降到最低。Say if, one day, while you are driving along, an unfortunate set of events causes the car to head towards a crowd of 10 people crossing the road. It cannot stopby steeringin time, so it will avoid killing 10 peopleinto a wall, killing you.假如有一天你開車時一系列不幸的事導(dǎo)致車沖向10個正在過馬路的人，車來不及停下

4、的話，為了避免撞上那10個人3車將會撞到墻上犧牲掉你一個。You' re like, Fuck that, rm out. And you leave the eventwithout pu rchasing the car.你可能會說：“去你的吧，我才不干?！比缓缶妥吡?，車也不買了。You see, this is the ethical dilemma of the self-driving car.你看，這就是無人駕駛汽車的道德困境。Researchers have done p oils on large groups of people on different ethica

5、l scenarios when it comes to self-driving cars. The results are interesting. In general, people are comfortable with the idea that self-driving vehicles should be programmed to minimize the death toll.研究人員找了一大群人針對無人駕駛汽車的不同道德設(shè)想進(jìn)行了民意測驗，結(jié)果很有趣，人們普遍贊成無人駕駛汽車應(yīng)該被設(shè)定將死亡人數(shù)最小化的程序設(shè)想。cruise inYet, they actually w

6、ished others to utilitarian autonomous vehicles, more than they wanted to buy utilitarian autonomous vehicles themselves.然而，他們是真的希望別人能開這種功利型的自動汽車，自己卻不想買。People are in favor of cars that sacrifice the occupant to save other lives as long as they don' t have to drive one themselves.人們支持犧牲車主挽救別人的汽車

7、，只要不是自己開就行。So what ' s the moral of the story?那么這個故事說明了什么道理呢?Ethics and morality are not straight-forward. The biggest trap ' people fall into, is thinking that they are good people, simply because they want to do good.倫理道德并非易事。人們陷入的最大“騙局”就是僅僅因為他們“想”做好事就認(rèn)為自己是“好”人。But having good intentions does not mean you are actually doing good. You lose sight of the big picture, and get tunnel-vision, as if looking out fro