Something else could be coming soon to a vehicle near you: more technology, the kind that could help your car talk to others around it. Unlike some proposed cars of the future, it would not actually do the driving for you. But it could warn you about what other drivers are doing. The U.S. government may require this feature in the future, but it would add to the cost of the car.

很快，在你的周围，会有其他类型的车辆出现。会有更多的科技应用到汽车领域，让你的汽车能与周围的车说话。不同于某些未来概念车型，它不会实际为你驾驶汽车，而是会告诉你周围其他驾驶者在干什么。美国政府可能在不久的将来会要求汽车具备这个特征，但这会增加汽车的成本。

Vehicles of the future could be cars that talk to the driver and each other. The U.S. government wants them on the road soon, pushing for technology that would warn drivers of danger coming from any direction.

未来的新型汽车可以和驾驶员以及其他人交流。美国政府想让这种车尽快投入生产，用先进科技提醒驾驶员来自各个方向的危险。

It's called vehicle-to-vehicle technology. Cars would send wireless messages to each other within about 300 yards, communicating information like speed, direction and GPS position ten times per second. When cars share this information, they can account for all the vehicles around them, which means they are able to identify possible crashes.

这是被称为“车车交互”的科技，即在 300 码的范围内，汽车之间可以互相发送无线信息，诸如速度、方向、GPS 定位等信息会每秒交互 10 次。当车辆间分享这些信息时，它们就会照顾到周围车辆，也就意味着，它们可以警觉到可能发生的事故。

The technology sees around corners, over hills and through other vehicles. For example, my car will tell me that there are five cars just ahead of me, and I can slow down beforehand while the vehicle ahead sends my car a message giving me enough time to react.

这种科技可以知晓被角落、丘陵以及其他车辆阻挡的车辆的运行状态。例如，我的车前有 5 辆车，前面的车辆会给我的车发来信息，使我获得足够的反应时间，我就能够提前减速。

33 , 000 Americans are killed and 2.3 million injured in car crashes every year. The Department of Transportation (DoT) predicts, talking cars could prevent up to 80 percent of crashes involving sober drivers.

每年有 33 000 美国人死于车祸，230 万美国人在车祸中受伤。据交通部预测，这种“会说话”的汽车可以预防高达 80%的不涉酒驾的汽车交通事故。

Five major car companies have been working with DoT on developing and testing the technology. 3 , 000 cars are already using it as part of a government pilot test. Sometime after 2016 , the U.S. government hopes your car will be able to communicate with you.

交通部与五大汽车生产商一直在对该项技术进行研发和测试。目前，作为政府试点的一部分，已有 3 000 辆汽车投入使用。到 2016 年之后的某个时候，美国政府希望你的车将能与你进行交互。

While DoT hopes to make this technology the rule by 2016 , it will still need the public to weigh in before anything is finalized. Now, as for privacy, the government says that data sent between cars doesn't record personal information, so your privacy should not be compromised.

交通部希望，到 2016 年，这个技术能够成为普遍规则，但规则出台前需要公众广泛参与讨论。至于隐私的问题，目前，政府部门表示，车辆之间所传输的数据并不会记录个人信息，因此你的个人信息不会被泄露出去。