Google's Driverless Car
I lost my best friend to a car accident.
我因一场车祸失去了我最好的朋友。
And then I decided I'd dedicate my life
然后我决定奉献我的一生
to saving one million people
拯救一百万人
Now I haven't succeeded, so this is just a progress report,
现在我还没有成功，所以这只是一个进度报告，
but I'm here to tell you a little bit about self-driving cars.
但我来这里是为了向您介绍一些有关自动驾驶汽车的信息。
I saw the concept first
我首先看到这个概念
in the DARPA Grand Challenges
在 DARPA 的重大挑战中
where the U.S. government issued a prize
美国政府颁发奖品的地方
to build a self-driving car that could navigate a desert.
建造一辆可以在沙漠中行驶的自动驾驶汽车。
And even though a hundred teams were there,
尽管有一百支球队参加，
these cars went nowhere.
这些车哪儿也去不了。
So we decided at Stanford to build a different self-driving car.
因此，我们决定在斯坦福大学制造一款不同的自动驾驶汽车。
We built the hardware and the software.
我们构建了硬件和软件。
We made it learn from us,
我们让它向我们学习，
and we set it free in the desert.
我们把它放回沙漠里。
And the unimaginable happened:
而令人难以想象的事情发生了：
it became the first car
它成为第一辆车
to ever return from a DARPA Grand Challenge,
从 DARPA 大挑战赛归来，
winning Stanford 2 million dollars.
赢得斯坦福大学200万美元。
Yet I still hadn't saved a single life.
但我仍然没有拯救一个人的生命。
Since, our work has focused
自此，我们的工作重点
on building driving cars
关于建造驾驶汽车
that can drive anywhere by themselves --
可以自己开车去任何地方——
any street in California.
加利福尼亚州的任何街道。
We've driven 140,000 miles.
我们已经行驶了 140,000 英里。
Our cars have sensors
我们的汽车有传感器
by which they magically can see
他们可以神奇地看到
everything around them
他们周围的一切
about every aspect of driving.
关于驾驶的各个方面。
It's the perfect driving mechanism.
这是完美的驱动机制。
We've driven in cities,
我们在城市里开车，
like in San Francisco here.
就像在旧金山这里一样。
We've driven from San Francisco to Los Angeles on Highway 1.
我们沿着 1 号高速公路从旧金山开车到洛杉矶。
We've encountered joggers,
我们遇到过慢跑者，
busy highways, toll booths,
繁忙的高速公路、收费站、
and this is without a person in the loop;
而且这是在没有人参与的情况下进行的；
the car just drives itself.
汽车只是自动驾驶。
In fact, while we drove 140,000 miles,
事实上，当我们行驶了 140,000 英里时，
people didn't even notice.
人们甚至没有注意到。
and even crooked Lombard Street
甚至还有弯曲的九曲花街
Sometimes our cars get so crazy,
有时我们的汽车变得如此疯狂，
they even do little stunts.
他们甚至还表演一些小特技。
(Video) Man: Oh, my God.
（视频）男人：哦，天啊。
Second Man: It's driving itself.
第二个人：它会自动驾驶。
Sebastian Thrun: Now I can't get my friend Harold back to life,
塞巴斯蒂安·特龙：现在我无法让我的朋友哈罗德起死回生，
but I can do something for all the people who died.
但我可以为所有死去的人做点什么。
Do you know that driving accidents
你知道驾驶事故
are the number one cause of death for young people?
是年轻人的第一大死因吗？
And do you realize that almost all of those
你是否意识到几乎所有这些
are due to human error
由于人为错误
and not machine error,
而不是机器错误，
and can therefore be prevented by machines?
因此可以通过机器来预防吗？
that we could change the capacity of highways
我们可以改变高速公路的通行能力
by a factor of two or three
两倍或三倍
if we didn't rely on human precision
如果我们不依赖人类的精确度
on staying in the lane --
留在车道上——
improve body position
改善身体姿势
and therefore drive a little bit closer together
因此开车距离更近一些
on a little bit narrower lanes,
在稍微狭窄的车道上，
and do away with all traffic jams on highways?
并消除高速公路上的所有交通拥堵？
Do you realize that you, TED users,
你是否意识到，作为 TED 用户，
of 52 minutes per day
每天 52 分钟
on your daily commute?
在你的日常通勤路上？
You could regain this time.
这次你可以重获新生了。
This is four billion hours
这是四十亿小时
wasted in this country alone.
光是在这个国家就被浪费了。
And it's 2.4 billion gallons of gasoline wasted.
浪费了 24 亿加仑汽油。
Now I think there's a vision here, a new technology,
现在我认为这里有一个愿景，一项新技术，
and I'm really looking forward to a time
我真的很期待有一天
when generations after us look back at us
当我们的后代回头看我们时
and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.
并说人类驾驶汽车是多么荒谬。