Tesla Motors came under renewed questioning about the safety of its Autopilot technology after news emerged on Wednesday of a fatal crash in China that may have occurred while the automated driver-assist system was operating.周三，中國經常出現一起可怕車禍的新聞，隨后，特斯拉汽車(Tesla Motors)自動駕駛技術的安全性再度受到批評。事故有可能是在自動的駕駛員輔助系統運營期間再次發生的。The crash took place on Jan. 20 and killed Gao Yaning, 23, when the Tesla Model S he was driving slammed into a road sweeper on a highway near Handan, a city about 300 miles south of Beijing, according to a report broadcast on Wednesday by the Chinese government news channel CCTV.中國政府的新聞機構中央電視臺周三報導，事故再次發生的時間是1月20日，地點在北京以南大約480公里處的城市邯鄲附近的一段高速公路。

報導稱之為，一輛特斯拉Model S撞到向一輛道路清掃車，造成23歲的駕車人高雅寧喪生。The report includes in-car video looking through the windshield as the car travels in the left lane at highway speed just before ramming into a parked or slow-moving orange truck. 央視的報導中經常出現了一段在車里利用擋風玻璃攝制到的視頻。視頻表明，就在撞向一輛停著或正在較慢移動的橘黃色卡車前，特斯拉汽車正在以高速公路的車速行經在左側車道上。The video, apparently shot by a camera mounted on the rearview mirror, recorded no images, sounds or jolts that would suggest the driver or the car hit the brakes before impact. At that point, the in-car video ends.這段視頻或許是由一個放置在后視鏡上的攝像頭攝制的。

視頻未記錄下任何畫面、聲音或震動能指出駕駛員或特斯拉汽車在爆胎有剎車動作。視頻停在了爆胎那一瞬間?！癢hen it was approaching the road sweeper, the car didn’t put on the brake or avoid it,” a police officer said in the CCTV report. “Instead, it crashed right into it.”“白色特斯拉轎車在遇上前方正在施工作業的這個道路清理作業車時，沒采取任何緊急制動和逃離措施，”一名警員在央視的報導中說道。

“必要與其撞?！盜n an emailed statement, Tesla said on Wednesday that it had not been able to determine whether Autopilot was active at the time of the Handan accident. The company declined to say when it learned of the fatality in China, or whether it had reported the crash to United States safety officials, who are investigating a fatal accident in Florida on May 7 in which Autopilot was engaged.周三當天，特斯拉在一份通過電子郵件收到的聲明中回應，尚能無法推斷邯鄲那起事故再次發生時，自動駕駛系統否正處于激活狀態。

該公司拒絕接受透漏是何時獲知再次發生在中國的這起可怕事故的，以及公司否已向美國的安全性事務官員匯報此事。涉及官員正在調查5月7日再次發生在佛羅里達州的一起可怕事故。

在那起事故中，自動駕駛系統正處于用于狀態。So far, that Florida accident is the only confirmed death involving a Tesla with Autopilot turned on. In that accident, there was no sign that the driver or Autopilot had applied the brakes before the car collided at high speed with a tractor-trailer that had turned in front of it.迄今為止，佛羅里達州那起事故是唯一一起獲得證實的，牽涉到關上了自動駕駛系統的特斯拉汽車的可怕案例。在那起事故中，沒跡象指出在那輛特斯拉汽車與前方一輛彎道的牽引式掛車高速撞前，駕駛員或自動駕駛系統采行了剎車措施。Although Tesla learned of the Florida accident a few weeks after it happened, it did not publicly disclose it until late June, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it was investigating the crash.特斯拉盡管在佛羅里達州那起事故再次發生幾周后之后告訴了事故情況，但直到6月末美國國家公路交通安全局(National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)宣告正在展開調查時，才公開發表透露此事。

News of the Chinese crash will renew questions about when the company should disclose information about accidents in cars equipped with Autopilot and what information should be shared.對于公司應當何時發布配有自動駕駛系統的車輛的事故，以及明確應當共享哪些信息，此前早于有批評，此次中國的車禍消息爆出后，人們再度明確提出這一問題。“Because of the damage caused by the collision, the car was physically incapable of transmitting log data to our servers, and we therefore have no way of knowing whether or not Autopilot was engaged at the time of the crash,” a Tesla spokeswoman, Alexis Georgeson, said in the company’s statement. “撞擊給車身導致的損毀，不會造成事故車輛無法將記錄下來的數據傳輸到我們的服務器上，因此我們不得而知獲知事故再次發生時，否用于了自動駕駛，”特斯拉的發言人亞歷克西絲喬治森(Alexis Georgeson)在公司聲明中說道。“We have tried repeatedly to work with our customer to investigate the cause of the crash, but he has not provided us with any additional information that would allow us to do so,” she said of the car’s owner, Mr. Gao’s father.“我們多次企圖與顧客合作，調查事故原因，但他并未獲取任何能容許我們這么做到的額外信息，”她說道到那輛特斯拉的所有者，也就是高雅寧的父親時說。She said Tesla was saddened to learn of the death of Mr. Gao. “We take any incident with our vehicles very seriously and immediately reached out to our customer when we learned of the crash,” she said.喬治森回應，獲知高雅寧的死訊，特斯拉深感哀傷。

“我們非常重視和我們的車輛有關的任何事故，得知爆胎事故后，我們立刻與顧客獲得了聯系，”她說道。Tesla and Autopilot have been under scrutiny since the disclosure of the May fatality. That crash killed Joshua Brown, 40, whose 2015 Model S was traveling 74 miles per hour when it collided with a tractor-trailer that had turned left and was crossing a highway near Williston, Fla. Autopilot’s radar and cameras failed to recognize the white truck against a bright sky.自從5月那起致人喪生的事故被公開發表后，特斯拉和自動駕駛仍然倍受注目。那起事故造成40歲的約書亞布朗(Joshua Brown)喪生。與一輛牽引式掛車撞時，布朗駕駛員的2015年產Model S于是以以74英里的時速行經。

那輛掛車已完成左轉，急忙穿越佛羅里達州威利斯頓附近的一條公路。在能見度很高的情況下，自動駕駛系統的雷達和攝像頭沒能辨識那輛白色的卡車。News of the China crash comes just three days after Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, outlined changes planned for Autopilot that he said would have prevented Mr. Brown’s accident and that he contended would make the Model S one of the safest cars on the road.就在有關中國這起事故的新聞經常出現的三天前，特斯拉首席執行官埃隆馬斯克(Elon Musk)詳細講解了自動駕駛的調整計劃。

他說道涉及變化需要避免再次發生布朗遭遇的那一類事故，并聲稱它們不會讓Model S淪為路面上最安全性的汽車之一。The changes include refinements in Autopilot’s radar that improve its ability to spot and identify obstacles down the road and additional warnings to force drivers to keep their hands on the steering wheel and eyes on the road while the system is active.這些變化還包括對自動駕駛系統的雷達展開多處改良。

這些改良需要提高雷達找到并辨識路面障礙的能力，此外還不會收到警告，被迫駕駛員在用于自動駕駛系統期間將雙手放到方向盤上，并留意路面情況。Tesla has said Autopilot is not meant to take over completely for a human driver. When Autopilot is turned on, drivers are given audio and text warnings to remain alert and engaged while using it.特斯拉回應，自動駕駛系統不是為了完全代替駕駛員。關上自動駕駛后，駕駛員不會接到語音和文字警告，讓其在用于自動駕駛系統期間保持警惕，留意車輛行經情況。

In August, Reuters reported that Tesla removed a Chinese term for “self-driving” from its China website after a driver in Beijing had a nonfatal crash while Autopilot was engaged. That driver later complained that the carmaker had oversold Autopilot’s capability.路透社(Reuters)在8月報導，北京的一名駕駛員在用于自動駕駛系統期間再次發生車禍后，特斯拉在其中文網站中去除了“自動駕駛”這個詞。那起事故并未導致人員傷亡。

后來，那名駕駛員責怪稱之為特斯拉高估了自動駕駛系統的能力。The video of the January accident indicates the type of unexpected problem that can crop up at highway speeds. Critics of Autopilot say a driver can be lulled into complacency, leaving too little time to take back control of the vehicle.在1月那起事故中保有下來的視頻，指出了汽車在高速公路上行經時可能會經常出現的意想不到的問題。對自動駕駛所持抨擊態度的人指出，駕駛員可能會錯誤地產生一種熱情，造成其完全沒時間新的掌控汽車。Mr. Gao was traveling in the left lane of a three-lane highway with another car ahead of him. When the car ahead moved into the center lane, it revealed the orange truck, which was straddling the road’s left shoulder. Mr. Gao’s car never slowed before plowing into the truck.邯鄲那起事故再次發生時，高雅寧正行經在一段三車道高速路的左側車道上，另一輛車在他前面。

前車劃歸中間車道后，那輛橘黃色的卡車顯露出了出來。它的車身跨上了左側路肩。撞到向那輛卡車時，高雅寧的車絲毫沒滑行。Police investigators concluded that Mr. Gao was responsible for the accident, CCTV reported. But in July his family sued the dealer who had sold the Tesla.央視報導稱之為，警方調查人員確認高雅寧對事故勝主要責任。

但7月，高雅寧的家人把售出那輛特斯拉的經銷商告上了法庭。The driver’s father, Gao Jubin, told CCTV he thought his son had been relying on Autopilot to drive the car and so was not watching the road when the crash took place.高雅寧的父親高巨斌對央視回應，他指出自己的兒子仍然倚賴自動駕駛，因此在事故再次發生時并未仔細觀察路面情況。

The lawsuit was filed “to let the public know that self-driving technology has some defects,” the family’s lawyer said in the report. “We are hoping Tesla, when marketing its products, will be more cautious. Don’t just use self-driving as a selling point for young people.”高雅寧家人的代理律師在央視的報導中回應，駁回訴訟是為了“讓公眾告訴，這種自動駕駛技術有缺陷”。他說道，“期望特斯拉公司需要在宣傳的過程中，在產品營銷過程中，要有一個謹慎的態度。不要把自動駕駛作為一個更有年輕人的賣點。

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