Look at the picture on the right. What is it? Yeah, it’s a special robot car,ROPITS. Japan made it this year. It’s a new kind of car. The car can drive itself. It is very easy for people to use it. ROPITS is short for Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System (个人智能交通系统机器人). ROPITS has only one seat. The Japanese made it for old and disabled (残疾的) people in Japan. What makes the ROPITS special? One can ask it to pick him or her up from a computer or a smart-phone. After he or she gets in the car and tells the ROPITS where to go, it will begin to drive itself and let the driver enjoy the ride. The ROPITS will not have traffic accidents (事故) because it drives very slowly, not more than 7 kilometers an hour. 小题1:This passage is about a new kind of .
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