通用汽车公司将让我们试乘试驾疯狂的EN- V电动原型车 proto

Cars are big and stupid. Well, most of the time, anyway. Need to bring home a couple sheets of drywall in the rain? Man it's nice to have a big truck with a cab. Need to run Jr. to school five miles away on a smoothly paved? Suddenly that full-size, extended cab, 13.5mpg dually monster starts seeming just a little silly. Assuming people continue their flock to the cities, in the future that latter situation will be an awful lot more common than the former and our cities simply won't be able to manage. The streets won't be wide enough, parking garages tall enough, nor oil wells deep enough. We need something different, and GM thinks that something is the EN-V. Even though it still isn't the future we just got a drive in one, so read on for our impressions.
GM EN-V test drive at CES 2011





First of all, EN-V isn't really intended to imply envy, especially in the case of the bulbous one that looks to us a little like Ponyo in her mid-transition state. It stands for Electric Networked-Vehicle and, yes, it's electric. The entire powertrain is a flat slab upon which the car sits, what's been dubbed the "skateboard." The body of the car then slides forward or backward to balance, and to go forward the body simply leans forward -- just like someone on a Segway. No surprise given that Segway helped to develop the P.U.M.A. that we test-drove back in 2009.

Its specs are easy to remember -- if you dig metric, at least: 500kg weight, 50km range, and 50km/h maximum speed. Things are a little less symmetrical in imperial: 1,100lbs, 31 miles, and 31mph. It seats two, has no suspension (other than the rubber in the tires and the padding in the seats), but we still haven't mentioned the best part: the networking.




The cars can talk to each other, and not just to say "Hey." It's more like "Get out of my way," with one car being able to automatically brake and avoid another. They can also say "Follow me," a practice called platooning with one car automatically (and safely) running in the tracks of the other.

Plenty more tricks, though, perhaps the best being that the car can park itself. Get out of the car, pull out your cellphone, hit a button, and it zips down the block and finds its own parking space. Hit another button and it comes right back. Sadly there are neither turbo boost nor air brake buttons to be found at this point, but we can hope for a future release. We'll leave the snarky British accent.

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期待小鸟的精彩翻译。。。。

俊俊，你这是要整死我 啊！！！

这么长，居然还是关于汽车的

我们继续期待！

附上谷歌的蛋疼翻译：

车是大的和愚蠢的。嗯，大部分的时间，反正。需要带回家，在雨中的石膏板一对夫妇表？男人这是不错的大卡车与一辆出租车。需要运行小顺利进行铺平了道路学校在5英里远吗？突然，全尺寸，延长了驾驶室，13.5mpg双重怪物开始似乎只是有点傻。假设人们不断涌向城市，在未来，后一种情况将是一个可怕的很多超过前者，我们的城市根本无法管理的共同的。不会足够宽的街道，停车场身高不够，也不油井深度不够。我们需要不同的东西，和通用汽车公司认为东西是EN - V。即使它仍然是没有未来，我们刚刚在一个驱动器，所以阅读对我们的印象。
通用汽车公司的EN - V试驾2011年在CES





首先，EN - V是不是真的打算表示羡慕，尤其是在球根看起来有点像金鱼公主在她的中间过渡状态的情况下，。它代表着电网络的车辆，是的，它的电动。整个动力系统是平板坐在车，什么是被称为“滑板”。车身向前或向后滑动平衡，往前走，身体前倾 - 就像上赛格威的人。毫不奇怪，赛格威帮助开发的PUMA我们试驾了早在2009年。

它的规格很容易记住 - 如果你挖的度量，至少：500KG重量50公里范围内，50公里/小时的最高车速。事情有点不太对称，在帝国：1,100磅，31英里，31英里每小时。席位，没有悬挂（在轮胎橡胶和填充在座位以外），但我们还没有提到最好的部分：网络。




车可以互相交谈，不只是说“嘿。”它更像是“滚出去我的方式，”一车能够自动刹车，避免再次。他们也可以说“跟我来”的做法称为platooning与一台车自动（和安全），在其他的轨道上运行。

还有更多的技巧，不过，也许是最好的汽车公园本身。下了车，拔出你的手机，打一个按钮，向下块拉链和发现自己的车位。点击另一个按钮，右后卫。可悲的是有没有涡轮增压，也没有发现在这一点上的空气制动按钮，但我们可以希望在未来的版本。我们将离开snarky英国口音。