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,丰田汽车公司宣布暂时停止对自驾车的测试。波士顿交通运输部要求自主汽车公司暂停测试,优步运输公司表示,他们已经停止在美国和加拿大的自动驾驶汽车。
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.
这一切都发生在周日发生在亚利桑那州坦佩的一起事件。那天晚上,一辆无人驾驶的优步越野车撞倒了行人。受害者骑着自行车穿过马路,这时她被一辆自动驾驶的沃尔沃撞倒了。
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,这名行人没有使用人行横道,也没有迹象表明,自动驾驶车辆提前减速。它当时以每小时40英里的速度行驶。
Uber says it`s fully cooperating with the police investigation and that the company`s hearts go out to the victim`s family.
优步表示,它正全力配合警方的调查,并表示公司对受害者家属深表同情。
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.
这不是自动驾驶汽车的第一次事故,但这是第一次有人被全自动驾驶汽车撞死。这款越野车确实有一个测试驾驶员在里面,在那里作为一个安全保障,但是当事故发生时,这辆车处于自动驾驶模式。警方表示,没有任何迹象表明,在事故之后,测试司机受到了损害。
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.