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As cars get smarter, why are people feeling more carsick?
为什么坐电动车更容易晕车？
Do you experience worse car sickness in electric cars than in petrol cars? You’re not alone—and when it comes to self-driving cars, it may be even worse.
你晕车吗？有没有觉得电车比油车更容易晕？你并不是一个人当涉及到自动驾驶汽车时，情况可能更糟。

As for electric cars, one-pedal driving is often blamed for feelings of car sickness, according to the US Department of Energy. The one pedal does both the accelerating and braking—the driver steps on the pedal to increase speed and takes their foot off the pedal to slow down. If you stop accelerating, the one-pedal will automatically slow and stop the car. The deceleration induced by this system is thus more rapid than in petrol cars, which may lead to motion sickness.
至于电动汽车，据美国能源部称，人们常常把晕车的感觉归咎于单踏板驾驶。

一个踏板既能加速又能刹车—司机踩上踏板加速，把脚从踏板上拿开减速。

如果你停止加速，单脚踏板会自动减速并停车。

因此，该系统的减速比传统汽油车更快，这可能会导致晕车。

Another technological advance that can also be related to car sickness is the larger and increasing number of screens inside vehicles. These screens overburden users with visual information, which discourages them from looking outside, according to The Conversation. Passengers thereby lose their ability to take in the “correct” visual signals, such as the moving surroundings, which can trigger sickness.
另一项可能与晕车有关的技术进步是车内屏幕越来越大，数量也越来越多。

据The Conversation网站报道，这些屏幕给用户带来了过多的视觉信息负担，这让他们不愿向外看。

乘客因此失去了接收“正确”视觉信号的能力，比如移动的环境，这可能会引发疾病。

To ensure the widespread usage of new types of vehicles, car producers are working to solve such problems with better technology. For example, Japanese company Honda is working on reducing the car’s “violent” acceleration by making changes to the engine, said Car Magazine.
为了确保新型汽车的广泛使用，汽车制造商正努力用更好的技术解决这些问题。

据《汽车杂志》报道，日本本田公司正致力于通过改变发动机来减少汽车的“剧烈加速”，从而减少乘客晕车的情况。

重点词汇：
1. blamed
英/bleɪmd/ 美/bleɪmd/
v. 把……归咎于，责怪，指责
2.surroundings
英/səˈraʊndɪŋz/ 美/səˈraʊndɪŋz/
n. 环境
3. widespread
英/ˈwaɪdspred/ 美/ˌwaɪdˈspred/ adj. 分布广的，普遍的，广泛的。