Next story today, the Toyota Motor Company says it`s temporarily stopping its test of self driving cars. The Boston Department of Transportation has asked autonomous car companies to pause testing there and the Uber transportation company says it`s stopped self-driving cars throughout the U.S. and Canada.
今天,豐田汽車(chē)公司宣布暫時(shí)停止對(duì)自駕車(chē)的測(cè)試。波士頓交通運(yùn)輸部要求自主汽車(chē)公司暫停測(cè)試,優(yōu)步運(yùn)輸公司表示,他們已經(jīng)停止在美國(guó)和加拿大的自動(dòng)駕駛汽車(chē)。
This all follows an incident that happened on Sunday in Tempe, Arizona. That night, a self-driving Uber SUV hit and killed a pedestrian. The victim was walking her bicycle across a road when she was struck by an autonomous Volvo.
這一切都發(fā)生在周日發(fā)生在亞利桑那州坦佩的一起事件。那天晚上,一輛無(wú)人駕駛的優(yōu)步越野車(chē)撞倒了行人。受害者騎著自行車(chē)穿過(guò)馬路,這時(shí)她被一輛自動(dòng)駕駛的沃爾沃撞倒了。
Police say the pedestrian was not using a crosswalk and that there`s also no indication that the self driving vehicle slow down beforehand. It was travelling at about 40 miles per hour.
警方表示,這名行人沒(méi)有使用人行橫道,也沒(méi)有跡象表明,自動(dòng)駕駛車(chē)輛提前減速。它當(dāng)時(shí)以每小時(shí)40英里的速度行駛。
Uber says it`s fully cooperating with the police investigation and that the company`s hearts go out to the victim`s family.
優(yōu)步表示,它正全力配合警方的調(diào)查,并表示公司對(duì)受害者家屬深表同情。
This isn`t the first crash of a self-driving car, but it is believed to be the first time someone was killed by a fully autonomous vehicle. The SUV did have a test-driver inside, a person there as a safeguard, but the car was in self-driving mode when the crash occurred. Police say there were no signs that the test driver was impaired in any way after the collision.
這不是自動(dòng)駕駛汽車(chē)的第一次事故,但這是第一次有人被全自動(dòng)駕駛汽車(chē)撞死。這款越野車(chē)確實(shí)有一個(gè)測(cè)試駕駛員在里面,在那里作為一個(gè)安全保障,但是當(dāng)事故發(fā)生時(shí),這輛車(chē)處于自動(dòng)駕駛模式。警方表示,沒(méi)有任何跡象表明,在事故之后,測(cè)試司機(jī)受到了損害。
Next story today, the Toyota Motor Company says it`s temporarily stopping its test of self driving cars. The Boston Department of Transportation has asked autonomous car companies to pause testing there and the Uber transportation company says it`s stopped self-driving cars throughout the U.S. and Canada.
This all follows an incident that happened on Sunday in Tempe, Arizona. That night, a self-driving Uber SUV hit and killed a pedestrian. The victim was walking her bicycle across a road when she was struck by an autonomous Volvo.
Police say the pedestrian was not using a crosswalk and that there`s also no indication that the self driving vehicle slow down beforehand. It was travelling at about 40 miles per hour.
Uber says it`s fully cooperating with the police investigation and that the company`s hearts go out to the victim`s family.
This isn`t the first crash of a self-driving car, but it is believed to be the first time someone was killed by a fully autonomous vehicle. The SUV did have a test-driver inside, a person there as a safeguard, but the car was in self-driving mode when the crash occurred. Police say there were no signs that the test driver was impaired in any way after the collusion.
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