1190.经济学人-The robotaxi revolution is upon us-5

How quickly they proliferate will depend a lot on technology.

Waymo and Cruise use a combination of detailed maps, extensive sensors and AI to achieve full autonomy, but only in the geofenced areas where they are trained. That means they can only advance step by step.

Tesla hopes to muscle into their territory with full-self-driving (FSD) technology that learns more the more its cars travel, using not maps but cameras and computer power to mimic a driver’s eyes and brain.

Yet Elon Musk’s claims about Tesla’s FSD capabilities create more confusion than clarity.

So far the technology requires too many human interventions to compete with Waymo and Cruise.

No driver can safely remove themselves from behind the wheel of a Tesla. When they eventually can, it could accelerate the robotaxi revolution considerably.

这是《经济学人》2023年8月刊的一篇文章'The robotaxi revolution is upon us'第5段。

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proliferate：猛增

发展的快慢取决于许多的技术。

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sensors：传感器

geofenced：地理围栏

Waymo 和 Cruise 结合使用详细地图、广泛的传感器和人工智能来实现完全自主，但仅限于它们接受训练的地理围栏区域。这意味着他们只能一步步前进。

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mimic：模仿

特斯拉希望通过全自动驾驶（FSD）技术进军他们的领地，该技术可以让汽车行驶得越多，了解的信息就越多，不使用地图，而是使用摄像头和计算机来模仿驾驶员的眼睛和大脑。

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然而，马斯克宣称的全自动驾驶技术能力带来的更多的是混乱而不是明确。

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到目前为止，该技术需要太多的人为干预才能与 Waymo 和 Cruise 竞争。

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没有司机能够安全地离开特斯拉的方向盘。当他们最终能够做到时，它将大大加速机器人出租车革命。

词汇

proliferate：猛增

sensors：传感器

geofenced：地理围栏

mimic：模仿