Cambridge 15 | Test 1 | Passage 2

Driverless Cars

The automotive sector is well used to adapting to automation in manufacturing. The implementation of robotic car manufacture from the 1970s onwards led to significant cost savings and improvements in the reliability and flexibility of vehicle mass production. A new challenge to vehicle production is now on the horizon and, again, it comes from automation. However, this time it is not to do with the manufacturing process, but with the vehicles themselves.

adapt (verb) [intransitive]

/əˈdæpt/

e.g., to change your ideas or behavior to make them suitable for a new situation

on the horizon (idiom)

likely to happen or exist soon

e.g., There is no new drug on the horizon that will make this disease easier to treat.

be/have something to do with something (idiom) [informal]

to be related to something or a cause of something but not in a way that you know about or understand exactly

e.g., I'm not sure what he does exactly - it's something to do with finance.