捷豹让你用眼睛控制雨刮器

 　　Jaguar¹ has already unveiled plans for eye-tracking cameras that can prevent you from falling asleep at the wheel.

　　捷豹推出了眼球追踪摄像头的计划，它能防止你在方向盘上睡着。

　　And now its latest patent wants to use this technology to control a car's window wipers.

　　现在其最新的专利想利用这一技术来控制汽车的雨刷。

　　It details a system in which every time the driver looks in their rear-view mirror the wipers on the rear window are activated² automatically.

　　专利中详细介绍了一个系统，每次司机看后视镜的时候后窗雨刷自动被激活。

　　However, the filing hints that it could potentially work with wipers on the front windscreen too.

　　然而，文件暗示司机的这一动作也可能使前挡风玻璃的雨刷被激活。

　　捷豹让你用眼睛控制雨刮器

　　The patent, called 'Windscreen clearing system for a vehicle', was filed by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) in March 2013 and awarded this week. It was originally spotted³ by Gizmag.

　　这项被称为“车辆的挡风玻璃清洁系统”的专利，于2013年3月由捷豹路虎(JLR)提出，并于本周授予。而最早发现它的其实是Gizmag。

　　When a driver decides to observe the environment behind the vehicle by looking through the rear windscreen, typically using a rear-view mirror, the rear windscreen may not be wiped and may be obscured.

　　当司机想通过后挡风玻璃观察车后面的环境时，后风挡玻璃可能很久没擦，也可能模糊不清，因此司机通常只能使用后视镜来观察。

　　It is against this background that the present invention has been conceived.

　　正是在这种背景下，本发明才被设想出来。

　　JLR added that the patent refers to a windscreen wiper system for a vehicle 'and particularly, but not exclusively, to a rear windscreen wiper system' that operates automatically in response to detecting eye-movement of a driver of the vehicle toward a rear-view mirror.

　　JLR补充说，这项关于挡风玻璃雨刷系统的专利"主要针对但不仅限于后挡风玻璃雨刷系统"，后者在探测到司机眼球朝后视镜方向移动时自动启用。

　　It is likely to take advantage of the eye-tracking Driver Monitor System (DMS) JLR announced in January.

　　它很可能利用了JLR在一月份宣布的眼球追踪司机监控系统(DMS)。

　　JLR, with support from Intel and Seeing Machines, has developed sensing technology that monitors the driver's face and eyes to reduce distracted and drowsy⁴ driving.

　　JLR在英特尔和视觉机器公司的支持下，已经开发了监测司机的脸和眼睛的遥感技术，以减少分心和疲劳驾驶。

　　Vocabulary

　　windscreen 汽车挡风玻璃

　　rear-view mirror 后视镜

1 jaguar   

n.美洲虎

参考例句：

• He was green with envy when he saw my new Jaguar car.看见我那辆美洲虎牌新车，他非常妒忌。
• Should you meet a jaguar in the jungle,just turn slowly,walk away.But slowly,never look back.你在丛林中若碰上美洲虎，就慢慢转身走开，可一定要慢，切莫回头看。

2 activated   

adj. 激活的 动词activate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The canister is filled with activated charcoal.蒸气回收罐中充满了活性炭。

3 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

4 drowsy   

adj.昏昏欲睡的，令人发困的

参考例句：

• Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache.废气把他熏得昏昏沉沉，还引起了头疼。
• I feel drowsy after lunch every day.每天午饭后我就想睡觉。