It is 2030 and your electric VW has developed an annoying habit of pulling to the right. A few years back, when your last petrol car started doing something similar, a local mechanic in overalls spent half an hour wrestling underneath it with a torque wrench and a few muttered expletives. Today, you link to the car’s control system from your tablet at the breakfast table and talk through an online portal to a VW technician in Hyderabad. Sure enough, it’s a software glitch. A patch is sent over the internet, and the repair is done.
假设现在是2030年,你的大众(VW)电动汽车有个烦人的毛病,它习惯向右偏。回想几年前,当你的最后一辆汽油车开始出现类似问题时,一位穿着工作服的本地维修工骂骂咧咧地拿着一把扳手在车子底下忙活了半个钟头。而今天,你可以在早餐桌上用平板电脑连接到汽车的控制系统,并通过门户网站与海得拉巴(Hyderabad)的一位大众技术人员交谈。果然,这是一个软件故障。通过互联网发送一个补丁,维修就完成了。