쉐도잉 연습: Traffic Has a Perfect Solution. Humans Are the Problem. - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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Stuck at an intersection, you always watch unfold the fundamental problem of traffic.
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On green, the first car accelerates, and then the next, and then the next, and then the next, and then you, only to catch the red.
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Had the cars accelerated simultaneously, you would have made it through.
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Coordination, not cars, is the problem, because we are monkey drivers with slow reaction times and short attention spans.
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Even if we tried, getting everyone to press the pedal on three, two, one, now would be challenging.
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This discoordination limits how many cars can get through an intersection, and when one backs up to the next, that's when city -sized gridlock cascades happen, taking forever to clear.
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In general, more intersections equals more discoordination, which equals more traffic.
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This is the motive behind big highways.
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No intersections.
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Splits and merges, yes.
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Intersections, no. No stopping, no coordination problems, no traffic.
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Well, that's the theory anyway.
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Intersections outside of a highway will back up onto it, again because human reaction times limit how many cars can escape the off -ramp when the light changes.
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But even without intersections, there would still be traffic on the highway.
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Traffic can just appear.
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Take a one -lane highway with happy cars flowing until a chicken crosses the road.
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The driver who sees it brakes a little, the driver behind him doesn't notice immediately and brakes a little harder than necessary, the driver behind him does the same until someone comes to a complete stop.
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And oh look, cars approaching at highway speeds must now stop as well.
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Though the chicken is long gone, it left a phantom intersection on the highway.
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This is what's happened
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when you're stuck in traffic for hours thinking there must be a deadly pile up ahead
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and then suddenly the traffic's over with no wreckage in sight.
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To your relief if you're a good person and mild annoyance if you aren't.
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You just pass through a phantom intersection, the cause of which is long gone.
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And this phantom intersection moves.
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It's really a traffic snake slithering down the road, eating oncoming cars at one end and pooping them out the other.
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On a ring road, a single car slowing down will start an aerobarous of traffic that will last forever, even though there's no problem with the road.
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If the drivers could coordinate to accelerate and separate simultaneously, easy driving would return, but they can't, so traffic eternal.
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On highways, traffic snakes grow if cars are eated faster than excreted, and they shrink if excreted faster than eated,
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dying when the last car accelerates away before the next car must stop.
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Now, in multi -lane highways, there needs be no chicken to start gridlock.
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A driver crossing lanes quickly with cars too close behind is enough to birth a traffic snake
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that lives for hours and leagues.
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It's this quick crossing that causes drivers behind to overbrake and begin a chain reaction.
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But we can make traffic snakes less likely by changing the way we drive.
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Your goal as a driver is to stay the same distance
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from the car ahead as from the car behind at all times.
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Tailgating is trouble, not just because it makes accidents more likely, but because you as the tailgater can start a traffic snake if the driver ahead breaks.
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Always in the middle.
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This gives you the most time to prevent overbraking, but also gives the driver behind you the most time as well.
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And when stuck in traffic, this rule would get all cars to pull apart the snake faster.
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That's the simple solution to traffic, getting humans to change their behavior, perhaps by sharing this video to show how and why traffic happens,
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why tailgaters are trouble, and how we can work together to make the roads better for all.
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The end.
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Except, yeah, wishing upon a star that people are better than they are is a terrible solution every time.
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Instead, what works is a structurally systematized solution, which is exactly what self -driving cars are.
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Self -driving cars can just be programmed to stay in the middle and accelerate simultaneously.
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They'll just do it.
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The more self -driving cars at an intersection, the more efficient the intersection gets a solid lane of self -driving cars vastly increases throughput.
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Hmm, actually, if you ban humans from the road, which we should totally do anyway, you can get rid of the intersection entirely.
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After all, a traffic light is just a tool for drivers on one road to communicate with drivers on another, poorly and coarsely.
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Red equals don't go now, we are coming through the intersection.
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Green equals good to go.
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But self -driving cars can talk to each other at the speed of light.
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With that kind of coordination, no traffic light necessary.
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Just as with a highway, the best intersection is no intersection.
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Humans will never drive this precisely.
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At the intersection, the fundamental problem with traffic that you watch unfold, as with everything, is people.
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So the real simple solution to traffic is no more monkeys driving cars.
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이 말하기 레슨은 영상 “Traffic Has a Perfect Solution. Humans Are the Problem”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: traffic, intersection, driver, highway, driving. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 57개와 단어 968개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 5:09입니다. 화자는 분당 약 188단어로 빠르게 말하므로 연음과 약하게 발음되는 소리가 많습니다. 단어의 82%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속합니다. 나머지는 연습 전에 미리 확인해 두세요.
이 영상의 핵심 어휘
영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 단어 | 발음 | 뜻 |
|---|---|---|
| intersection 명사 | /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/ | 사거리, 네거리 |
| snake 명사 | /sneɪk/ | 뱀 |
| brake 명사 | /bɹeɪk/ | 브레이크, 제동기 |
| simultaneously 부사 | /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/ | 동시에 |
| audio 형용사 | /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/ | 오디오 |
| fundamental 형용사 | /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/ | 기본적 |
| monkey 명사 | /ˈmʌŋki/ | 원숭이 |
| efficient 형용사 | /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ | 효율적인 |
| endless 형용사 | /ˈɛndlɪs/ | 끝없다 |
| pile 명사 | /paɪl/ | 무더기 |
| eternal 형용사 | /ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/ | 영원하다 |
| mild 형용사 | /ˈmaɪld/ | 온화한 |
| motive 명사 | /ˈmoʊtɪv/ | 동기 |
| biography 명사 | /baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/ | 전기 |
| coordinate 동사 | /koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/ | 조화시키다 |
주의할 발음
화자는 you're, aren't, can't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 7번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.
- “th” 소리: slither /ˈslɪðɚ/, throughput /ˈθɹuː.pʊt/
- “sh”와 “zh” 소리: intersection /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/, coordination /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/
- 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: intersection /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/, coordination /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/, accelerate /ɪkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪt/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/
한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:
- /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: phantom /ˈfæntəm/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, biography /baɪˈɑɡɹəfi/, unfold /ʌnˈfoʊld/
- /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: motive /ˈmoʊtɪv/, vastly /ˈvæstli/
- /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: lanes /leɪnz/, systematize /ˈsɪstəməˌtaɪz/
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