2021年3月1日 星期一

sardonic, accolade du jour, disengage, engagement. autonomous driving companie




Formed in 2018 and hosted by the Edgerton Center at MIT, MIT Driverless comprises 50 highly motivated engineers with diverse skill sets. The team is intent on learning by doing, pushing the boundaries of the autonomous driving field.



NEWS.MIT.EDU
Driving on the cutting edge of autonomous vehicle tech
In a bid to become the hub of practical autonomy at the Institute, MI


Many Chinese autonomous driving companies are testing relentlessly in the U.S., where 40 states have AV regulations, California's being the most comprehensive.
可能是顯示的文字是「 2020 self-driving tests in California (In thousands of miles) 29.9 28.5 20.4 10.7 10.5 6.5 5.2 5.0 3.3 1.6 Company Mileage Miles per disengagement* Waymo 628.8 Cruise 770.0 AutoX 40.7 Pony.Al 225.5 Argo.Al 21.0 WeRide 13.0 DiDi 10.4 Nuro 55.4 Deeproute.Al 10.0 Zoox 102.5 *Marks incidents where operator was forced to take manual control or autonomous technology failed Source: California Department of Motor Vehicles, Egil Juliussen 」的圖像






Obama Administration Has First Face-to-Face Contact With Iran
By MARK LANDLER



The biggest indictment of Donald Trump’s sham Senate trial is that most Americans have ignored itVoting with their eyeballs

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Americans are disengaged from Donald Trump's impeachment trial
A brief meeting with an Iranian official and an unsigned letter marked another step in the Obama administration’s policy of engagement.



http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6092.htmlWorking paper: "Sweatshop Labor is Wrong Unless the Jeans are Cute: Motivated Moral Disengagement" ...


The Brightest Are Not Always the Best

By FRANK RICH
Long before the phrase “the best and the brightest” became the accolade du jour, it was meant to strike a sardonic, not a flattering, note.



"The Desperate Man" (1844-45)

No artist before Picasso put so much of himself on canvas. In one self-portrait, he is long-haired and delicate, a Pontormo prince. In another he tears his hair, wide-eyed and wild, like Johnny Depp’s pirate rendered by Caravaggio. And in “Self-Portrait with Pipe” we see an early version of the disengaged gaze, at once dreaming and sardonic, that would become a trademark.





The comments about the clip range from “Wow,” followed by eight exclamation points, to a sardonic request about “knocking a couple of bucks off the price of that beautiful stroller.”


sardonic
adjective
showing a lack of respect in a humorous but unkind way, often because you think that you are too important to consider or discuss a matter:
a sardonic smile/look/comment
accolade
noun [C] FORMAL
praise and approval:
This is his centennial year and he's been granted the ultimate accolade - his face on a set of three postage stamps.
Her approval was the highest accolade he could have received.

du jour

(də zhʊr, dū) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Prepared for a given day: The soup du jour is cream of potato.
  2. Most recent; current: the trend du jour.
[French : du, of the + jour, day.]


disengage
v., -gaged, -gag·ing, -gag·es. v.tr.
  1. To release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles. See synonyms at extricate.
  2. To release (oneself) from an engagement, pledge, or obligation.
v.intr.
To free or detach oneself; withdraw.
disengagement dis'en·gage'ment n.


SYNONYMS extricate, disengage, disentangle, untangle. These verbs mean to free from something that entangles: extricated herself from an embarrassing situation; trying to disengage his attention from the television; disentangled the oar from the water lilies; a trapped animal that untangled itself from a net.

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