What Does Tesla‘s Automated Truck Mean For Truckers？

What Does Tesla‘s Automated Truck Mean For Truckers？

特斯拉自动驾驶卡车对卡车司机意味着什么？

On Thursday night,*Elon Musk*rolled outTesla's biggestgizmoyet: a fully electricsemitruck. The Semi can go awhopping500 miles between charges,hauling80,000 pounds along the way. And it cansorta', kindadrive itself ——on highways,anyway.

周四（2017年11月16日）晚，埃隆，马斯克推出了迄今为止特斯拉公司最重头的发明创造：全电动半挂式重型卡车。这款名为 semi的卡车单次充电续航里程长达500英里，载重可达8万磅。

The truck comes withEnhanced Autopilot, the second generation of Tesla's semiautonomous technology, equipped with automaticbraking,lane keeping, andlane departure warnings.

它也算能自动驾驶吧一一至少是在公路上。这款卡车配备了第二代特斯拉半自动技术一一增强版自动驾驶功能，具备自动刹车、车道保持和车道偏离警告功能。

"Every truck we sell has Autopilot as standard," Musk said of the Semi, which goes into production in 2019. "This is a massive increase in safety."

马斯克谈到将于2019年投产的Semi时说：“我们出售的每辆卡车均有自动驾驶作为标配。安全性将大幅提升。"

That may be true——about 4,000 Americans die in truck-relatedcollisionsevery year, and human error is responsible for many of them. Self-driving trucks will certainly change lives. That goes double for the nearly 3.2 million people currently employed asdeliveryand heavy truck drivers.

这或许属实一一每年约有40m名美国人死于与卡车有关的碰撞事故，其中许多都由人为过失造成。自动驾驶卡车定会改变生活，对于近320万货运和重型卡车司机来说影响更甚。

But we don't know how:A dearth ofresearch means that no one really knows what effect automation will have on the sector. It's clear that truck driving will change, though, and companies testing autonomous trucking today in Florida and California and elsewhere show what that new future might look like.

不过，我们尚不清楚这将如何改变生活：缺少相关研究意味着没有谁真正清楚自动化将对该行业造成何种影响。但显而易见的是，卡车驾驶这个行业会发生改变，如今在佛罗里达州和加利福尼亚州还有其他地方试水卡车自动驾驶的企业就向我们展现了全新的未来可能会有怎样的面貌。

Elon Musk: 埃隆·马斯克(1971一),生于南非,18岁时移民加拿大。工程师、慈善家,PayPals太空探索技术公司 (SpaceX)、环保跑车公司特斯拉(Tesla)、以及SolarCity四家公司的CEO。

roll out sth:正式推出(新产品);开展(新的政治运动)

gizmon.小玩意儿;小装置

semitruck=semitrailer 半拖货运车,挂有半拖车的货运车

whopping/WDPIO/ ad.巨大的;很大的

haul/ho:l/(用力)拖,拉,拽

sorta/'so:te/ ad【美口】近似,有几分;可以说是 = sort of

kinda【口】有点儿,有几分;相当;可以这么说 (= kind of)

anywayad.【主美〕不管怎么说,无论如何;至少

enhanced/ln'ha:nst/ ad.（尤指通过人工手段）增强的，改进的，提高的

autopilot：automaticpilot（飞机的）自动驾驶仪；（船的）自动操舵装置

brakevi.用闸减速；刹（车）

lanen.车道

departure/n.偏移；偏差

collisionn.碰撞（或相撞）事故

deliveryn.传送；递送；交付

dearth(~of sth) n.缺乏；不足

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