VOA双语新闻：3、让驾驶员放松身心的汽车座椅（在线收听）

让驾驶员放松身心的汽车座椅

The everyday snags that drivers encounter while running errands or getting stuck in traffic are frustrating, time-consuming and tiring. And fatigue, stress and anger are factors in many wrecks that result in injuries or deaths.

每天开车的不愉快，从开车办琐事到交通拥堵，都是令人沮丧、消耗时间和令人疲惫的。当人们带着疲倦或怒气驾驶时，就容易发生更多的车祸和伤亡。

French tech company Faurecia Automotive says it has designed a car seat that can help drivers keep it together behind the wheel: the "Active Wellness" car seat Sensors built into the seat measure the driver's vital signs and then respond.

现在一家名叫佛吉亚汽车公司（Faurecia Automotive）的科技公司表示，它们可以帮忙。他们设计了一款能够帮助驾驶员们在开车时放松身心的座椅。这款座椅叫做“活跃健康”（Active Wellness）汽车座椅，座椅中内置的传感器测量驾驶员们的生命体征，随后作出反应。

“What we basically do is to monitor respiration rate and heart rate in the seat, and we derive stress and energy level[s] from that," said Olaf Biedermann, a director of innovation for Faurecia. "In case you are stressed, you get a relaxation massage. In case you have low energy levels, you get a very energizing massage.”

佛吉亚汽车公司欧洲创新部主任奥拉夫·毕德曼说：“我们主要是监测驾驶员的呼吸速率和心率，并且据此得出驾驶员所处的压力和能量级别。如果你有精神压力，这款座椅会为你做放松按摩。如果你打不起精神，座椅会为你做一次非常提神的按摩。”

It took five years for the company to build a prototype that uses a combination of air flow and patterned massage to respond a driver's need. The seat can even cool down if the driver is feeling hot.

公司花了五年时间建造一款原型机，将气流和有规律的按摩结合起来，根据驾驶员的需要做出反应。

The seat could become available in 2020 to make drivers calmer and safer on the road.

这款座椅将于2020年投放市场，以帮助驾驶员上路开车时更冷静、更安全。