This week, at the begining  of English Lunch (every Wednesday from 14:30 to 15:30), we will watch the video: «Google´s driverless car» with Sebastian Thrun. We encourage you to watch it before wednesday lunch!

Watch the video…

Topic

Driverless car

Summary

Sebastian Thrun helped build Google’s amazing driverless car,powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic accidents. Jawdropping video shows the DARPA Challenge-winning car motoring through busy city traffic with no one behind the wheel, and dramatic test drive footage from TED2011 demonstrates how fast the thing can really go.

Sebastian Thrun is the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and is working, through robotics, to change the way we understand the world.

Vocabulary

progress report, navigate, joggers, highways, toll booths, loop, crooked Lombard Street , stunts, therefore , prevented , rely, lane , traffic jams, commute, regain, ridiculous

Tricks…

British Slang Phrases: Any road / Barmy / Chin Wag / Donkey’s years / Get stuffed / Lose the plot / Tosh

Notes

http://thoughtcatalog.com/nico-lang/2013/09/71-simple-british-slang-phrases-everyone-should-start-using/

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