美国推出智能摩托车头盔

 　　Marcus Weller, founder¹ and CEO of Skully Inc says the idea started off with an accident.

　　He was riding a motorcycle in Barcelona when he took his eyes off the road to look at a road sign and smashed into a car.

　　Weller says he dreamt about that accident a couple of years later, but in the dream he didn't crash.

　　"It was an exact flashback dream of that experience. But the important difference was I wasn't looking around for street signs and trying to figure out where I was going because I had these GPS maps and they were floating out in front of me like a hologram. I'm going down the road and because I am looking forward I see the car break and I swerved² around it and I didn't get into the accident. That woke me up out of a dead sleep and I sat up in bed and I had goose bumps and I was like 'that is going to save peoples lives'."

　　That dream was the inspiration for the smart motorcycle helmet.

　　美国推出智能摩托车头盔

　　Weller explains that utilizing³ a state of the art video system the smart helmet enables a rider to see in every direction at once with no blind spots.

　　"What the video system in the helmet does is with zero latency it takes a 180 degree blind spot camera. It’s an ultra wide angle camera and it gives you eyes in the back of your head and it renders that in the heads up display."

　　Weller says the developers have to ensure the technology was in sync with how the human brain processes vision.

　　"It is leveraging⁴ or capitalizing on the way our brains and our visual systems naturally work to put that information back into the field of view, back in infinite focus to wherever I look it is in focus and reducing the reaction time, reducing the likelihood of a life threatening accident."

　　The helmet syncs to a phone via Bluetooth enabling hands-free calling, GPS navigation, and music streaming while keeping your eyes on the road.

　　The first helmets are scheduled to start shipping⁵ out to buyers just in time for Christmas.

　　For CRI, I'm Guo Yan.

1 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

2 swerved   

v.（使）改变方向，改变目的( swerve的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She swerved sharply to avoid a cyclist. 她猛地急转弯，以躲开一个骑自行车的人。
• The driver has swerved on a sudden to avoid a file of geese. 为了躲避一队鹅，司机突然来个急转弯。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 utilizing   

v.利用，使用( utilize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Utilizing an assembler to produce a machine-language program. 用汇编程序产生机器语言的过程。 来自辞典例句
• The study and use of devices utilizing properties of materials near absolute zero in temperature. 对材料在接近绝对零度时的特性进行研究和利用的学科。 来自辞典例句

4 leveraging   

促使…改变( leverage的现在分词 )； [美国英语]杠杆式投机，（使）举债经营，（使）利用贷款进行投机

参考例句：

• De-leveraging is a painful process: it has barely begun. 去杠杆化是个痛苦的过程：它才刚刚开始。
• Archimedes said, saying: Give me a fulcrum, I can leveraging the Earth. 阿基米德说过一句话：给我一个支点，我可以撬动地球。

5 shipping   

n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）

参考例句：

• We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
• There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。