Name: 【TED】Chris Gerdes:未來的賽車--時速150英里，而且沒有司機（Chris Gerdes：未來的賽車--時速150英里，而且沒有司機）。 (【TED】Chris Gerdes: The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver (Chris Gerdes: The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:27:41.000Z
Duration: 10 min 48 s

Translator: Morton Bast Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha

譯者: Jonas Lau 審譯者: Tien-Hsin Yang

when you really shouldn't have been driving?

Maybe you're out on the road for a long day,

You were tired, but you felt you could drive a few more miles.

你非常累，但是你覺得你還可以再開幾哩路

I've had less to drink than everybody else,

Or maybe your mind was just entirely elsewhere.

又或者你的注意力完全不在開車這件事上了

Now, in those situations, wouldn't it be great

現在，在剛剛所說的那些狀況下， 你應該會感到以下的新發明很吸引吧...

如果有一個按鈕在你的儀表板上，按一按

that you could push, and the car would get you home safely?

車子會自動地把你安全地送回家

Now, that's been the promise of the self-driving car,

the autonomous vehicle, and it's been the dream

一輛自主的汽車，這是從一九三九年

since at least 1939, when General Motors showcased

this idea at their Futurama booth at the World's Fair.

在世界博覽會“飛出個未來"攤位中展示他們的想法開始後，很多人對汽車的寄望

that's always seemed about 20 years in the future.

好像永遠要在二十年後才有希望實現

Now, two weeks ago, that dream took a step forward,

現在, 就在兩星期前, 這個夢想向前邁進了一步

when the state of Nevada granted Google's self-driving car

當美國內華達州對 Google (谷歌) 的自動導航汽車發出

the very first license for an autonomous vehicle,

clearly establishing that it's legal for them

可以在內華達州的道路上進行測試

Now, California's considering similar legislation,

最近, 加州正考慮仿效類似的立法工作

and this would make sure that the autonomous car

這樣一來, 他們就可以確保那輛自動汽車

is not one of those things that has to stay in Vegas.

Now, in my lab at Stanford, we've been working on

在我的史丹福大學實驗室裏, 我們也在著手研究

autonomous cars too, but with a slightly different spin

自動汽車, 但是從一個稍為不同的角度

on things. You see, we've been developing robotic race cars,

去看這件事。你看, 我們正在研發機動賽車

cars that can actually push themselves to the very limits

Now, why would we want to do such a thing?

Well, there's two really good reasons for this.

First, we believe that before people turn over control

第一, 我們相信, 在人類把控制權

to an autonomous car, that autonomous car should be

交給自動汽車之前, 那自動汽車的表現至少要

at least as good as the very best human drivers.

Now, if you're like me, and the other 70 percent of the population

如果你跟我一樣, 跟百分之七十的人口一樣

who know that we are above-average drivers,

你會明白這對於自動汽車來說是很高的門檻

Just like race car drivers can use all of the friction

all of the car's capabilities to go as fast as possible,

加上充份運用車子的性能去達致最高速

we want to use all of those capabilities to avoid

有時你使車子超過所能承受的極限

but because you've hit an icy patch of road,

that is capable enough to avoid any accident

就能購避免任何意外發生的一輛車。

I must confess, there's kind of a third motivation as well.

我必須承認, 我們有第三個動機

although maybe not at the level that you're currently expecting.

雖然不是你們想像中的那個層次

One of the things that we've developed in the lab --

我們在實驗室裏研發的其中一個項目--

where maybe there's not a lot of competition.

But this is P1. It's an entirely student-built electric vehicle,

這是 P1。一個完全由學生建立的電動汽車

It can get sideways like a rally car driver,

它可以像拉力賽中的賽車手高速轉向

We've also worked with Volkswagen Oracle,

on Shelley, an autonomous race car that has raced

用它的Shelley 型號汽車, 一款自動賽車

at 150 miles an hour through the Bonneville Salt Flats,

以時速150 英里穿越美國猶他州邦納維爾大鹽湖附近的平原

gone around Thunderhill Raceway Park in the sun,

在太陽底下橫過 Thunderhill 賽車場

and navigated the 153 turns and 12.4 miles

以導航系統引領汽車在科羅拉多州的 Pikes Peak Hill Climb 賽道上

I guess it goes without saying that we've had a lot of fun

But in fact, there's something else that we've developed

in the process of developing these autonomous cars.

這些自動汽車的過程中，體驗到一些事情

We have developed a tremendous appreciation

for the capabilities of human race car drivers.

As we've looked at the question of how well do these cars perform,

當我們看到這些自動汽車的表現時

we wanted to compare them to our human counterparts.

我們想將它們與人類賽車手作比較

And we discovered their human counterparts are amazing.

我們發現人類賽車手的表現是多麼令人讚歎的

we can take a mathematical model of a car,

我們可以為自動汽車製作一個數學模型

and with some iteration, we can actually find

經過幾個回合的修定，我們的確可以找到

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absolutely

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