夏说英语新闻晨读 第221期:百度无人驾驶汽车技术

 本期内容：

China's biggest online-search company, Baidu, said it would make its self-driving car technologies available to others. In a bid to advance autonomous¹ vehicles—and perhaps to become an industry standard in the same way that Google’s Android operating system is for smartphones—Baidu’s Apollo project will distribute technologies to developers and carmakers, initially² for use in restricted environments, as soon as July.

In a bid: 为了
Advance：推进
Autonomous vehicle: 自动驾驶汽车
Operating system：操作系统
Distribute: 分发
Initially：首先地
Restricted：限制的

1 autonomous   

adj.自治的；独立的

参考例句：

• They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
• This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。

2 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。