Name: 獨家瞭解克魯斯的首款完全無人駕駛汽車 (Exclusive look at Cruise’s first fully driverless car)
Uploaded: 2020-10-29T18:25:32.000Z
Duration: 5 min 12 s

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- Hey, it's Andy with The Verge, and we just got our

- 嘿，我是安迪與The Verge，我們剛剛得到了我們的。

autonomous vehicle from Cruise, they call it the Origin.

來自Cruise的自主汽車，他們稱之為Origin。

It really didn't look like any car I've ever seen before

它真的不像我以前見過的任何一輛車。

and that's really kind of the first impression you get

這真的是一種你得到的第一印象。

The outside of it has the same dimensions

but that's really kind of where the similarities end.

但這真的是一種相似之處結束。

you first have to put in a code on its keypad,

你首先要在它的鍵盤上輸入一個代碼。

it's a minivan that opens from both sides.

這是一輛從兩邊打開的小型貨車。

and that's obvious because there's no steering wheel,

there's no pedals, there's no gear shaft,

There's just two bench seats facing each other

and this sort of vast space in between them.

和這種巨大的空間在他們之間。

- It's designed to be comfortable if it's shared,

- 如果是共享的話，設計得很舒服。

but if it's just you you got so much space in here,

但如果只有你一個人，你有這麼多空間在這裡。

you can really like, stretch out, and it's pretty great.

你可以真正喜歡， 伸展出來，它是相當不錯的。

所以我覺得這是一個很好的體驗。

whether it's just you or a lot of other people.

不管是隻有你一個人還是很多人。

and Argo which is backed by Ford and Volkswagen.

以及由福特和大眾汽車支持的Argo。

Cruise is tied very closely to GM, General Motors,

克魯斯與通用汽車、通用汽車公司的關係非常密切。

which is the largest auto manufacturer in the US.

該公司是美國最大的汽車製造商。

Cruise has 160 self driving test vehicles

where they hope to eventually launch a fully

他們希望最終能在那裡推出一個完全

But more importantly, they've raised about seven billion

但更重要的是，他們已經籌集了約70億的資金

dollars in venture capital cash over the last

couple of years, which is really just like,

a staggering amount of money for a self driving car company.

對於一家自動駕駛汽車公司來說，這是一筆驚人的資金。

Especially when you consider that they haven't even

特別是當你考慮到他們甚至還沒有。

Now about two point seven billion of that

is coming from the other big auto manufacturer

在克魯斯的角落裡，那就是本田。

This doesn't look like any other car in the road today,

這和今天路上的其他車不一樣。

arguing that many of the problems that we have today

認為我們今天所面臨的很多問題

could be traced to single occupancy vehicles.

removing the driver, and the steering wheel, and the pedal,

拆下司機，和方向盤，還有踏板。

that eliminates some complexity and cost in the vehicle.

這就消除了車輛的一些複雜性和成本。

But as you can see here, the way vehicles are designed,

但從這裡可以看出，車輛的設計方式。

normally they have a hood in the front where the engine is,

通常他們有一個引擎蓋在前面的地方。

但當你不需要這些東西的時候。

and you don't need things placed where they are,

而你不需要把東西放在它們所在的地方。

we can have this enormous, spacious cabin

我們可以擁有這個巨大的，寬敞的船艙

without taking up any more space on the road

than a regular car would, which is kind of insane.

比普通汽車會，這是一種瘋狂。

It leads to a far greater experience for the rider,

這就導致了騎手的體驗度大大提升。

and specifically being used in a ride share fleet,

you know the vehicle is engineered to last a million miles,

你知道這輛車的設計是為了持續一百萬英里。

and all the interior components are replaceable.

而且所有的內部組件都是可以更換的。

The compute is replaceable, the sensors are replaceable,

計算器是可以更換的，傳感器是可以更換的。

and what that does is it drives the cost per mile down

這就是它的驅動每英里的成本下降。

- Now Cruise insists that this is not just a fancy concept,

- 現在，克魯斯堅持認為，這不僅僅是一個花哨的概念。

which is a really important distinction to make.

Now we've seen dozens of radical car concepts

現在我們已經看到了幾十款激進的汽車理念

over the years that have re-imagined interiors

幾年來，重新塑造了室內的形象。

that look like fancy living rooms or bedrooms.

of hitting the road anytime soon, if ever.

Cruise says that this car is going into production.

Cruise needs a special exemption from the federal government

克魯斯需要聯邦政府的特別豁免權

in order to mass produce vehicles without

traditional human controls like steering wheels and pedals.

傳統的人為控制，如方向盤和踏板。

And the federal government only grants about

Now GM put in its request for an exemption

back in 2018, but it hasn't gotten it yet,

早在2018年，但它還沒有得到它。

and it's unclear when exactly this car is going

而目前還不清楚這輛車到底什麼時候會被

Now Cruise has hit some bumps in the road before.

現在克魯斯之前也遇到了一些坎坷。

Its plan to launch a robo taxi service in San Francisco

其計劃在舊金山推出機器人計程車服務。

before the end of 2019 didn't really happen.

It said the technology wasn't really ready yet.