Google's driverless car | Sebastian Thrun

Translator: Chitmin Ng Reviewer: Ann Lee

As a boy,

細個果陣

I loved cars.

我就鐘意汽車

When I turned 18,

18歲果陣

I lost my best friend to a car accident.

我最好噶一位朋友係車禍中喪生。

Like this.

好似咁，

And then I decided I'd dedicate my life

於是決定投身

to saving one million people

拯救每年

every year.

一百萬人噶生命

Now I haven't succeeded, so this is just a progress report,

目前還未成功，所以哩個只係一個進度報告，

but I'm here to tell you a little bit about self-driving cars.

今日我想同你地介紹噶係無人駕駛汽車。

I saw the concept first

我第一次聽講哩個概念果陣係

in the DARPA Grand Challenges

美國政府係DARPA大挑戰中

where the U.S. government issued a prize

懸賞建造一輛

to build a self-driving car that could navigate a desert.

可以在沙漠入邊導航噶無人駕駛汽車。

And even though a hundred teams were there,

即使當時有100家團隊，

these cars went nowhere.

果D汽車都未完成過。

So we decided at Stanford to build a different self-driving car.

因此我決定係斯坦福大學建造一輛無人駕駛汽車。

We built the hardware and the software.

我地搭建軟硬件。

We made it learn from us,

令距向我地學習

and we set it free in the desert.

同時自由係沙漠中奔馳。

And the unimaginable happened:

意想唔到噶事發生左：

it became the first car

距成爲左第一輛

to ever return from a DARPA Grand Challenge,

可以完成DARPA大挑戰噶汽車——

winning Stanford 2 million dollars.

爲斯坦福大學贏到20萬美金。

Yet I still hadn't saved a single life.

不過我仲係未能拯救到一條生命。

Since, our work has focused

果次之後，

on building driving cars

我地噶任務轉向左

that can drive anywhere by themselves --

可以在任何地方自動駕駛噶汽車——

any street in California.

係加州任意一條街道上。

We've driven 140,000 miles.

我地已經行駛左14萬英里。

Our cars have sensors

車上噶傳感器會

by which they magically can see

魔幻般檢視

everything around them

周圍一切

and make decisions

同時會做出

about every aspect of driving.

駕駛方向決策。

It's the perfect driving mechanism.

距噶駕駛技術太剄了。

We've driven in cities,

我地駛過

like in San Francisco here.

好似三藩市感噶城市，

We've driven from San Francisco to Los Angeles on Highway 1.

我地係1好高速公路上從三藩市開到洛杉磯。

We've encountered joggers,

我地遇到過慢跑者、

busy highways, toll booths,

繁忙噶高速公路、收費站，

and this is without a person in the loop;

成個過程都戲無人操縱噶；

the car just drives itself.

汽車自己駕駛。

In fact, while we drove 140,000 miles,

事實上，甚至無人注意到

people didn't even notice.

我地駛過14萬英里

Mountain roads,

無論係山路、

day and night,

白天黑夜，

and even crooked Lombard Street

還係三藩市崎嶇噶

in San Francisco.

Lombard街道。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

Sometimes our cars get so crazy,

有時我地噶汽車會好瘋狂，

they even do little stunts.

有D雜技表演噶味道。

(Video) Man: Oh, my God.

（視頻）A：噢，上帝！

What?

乜啊？

Second Man: It's driving itself.

B:距自動駕駛緊

Sebastian Thrun: Now I can't get my friend Harold back to life,

ST：今日我無辦法令我噶朋友Harold重生，

but I can do something for all the people who died.

但係我可以爲果D死去噶人做些野。

Do you know that driving accidents

你知唔知交通意外係

are the number one cause of death for young people?

年輕人死亡噶頭號殺手嗎？

And do you realize that almost all of those

你有無意識到

are due to human error

幾乎所有噶事故都係由於人爲錯誤

and not machine error,

而唔係機器及其鼓掌導致嗎？

and can therefore be prevented by machines?

你有無意識到我地可以通過機器來阻止感樣噶後果？

Do you realize

你知唔知

that we could change the capacity of highways

假如我地唔再依賴人類

by a factor of two or three

選擇車道噶精確度

if we didn't rely on human precision

可以將高速公路噶容納量

on staying in the lane --

提高兩到三倍——

improve body position

優化車輛噶位置

and therefore drive a little bit closer together

令距地可以係較窄噶車道上

on a little bit narrower lanes,

行駛，

and do away with all traffic jams on highways?

以及減少高速公路上噶交通擠塞。

Do you realize that you, TED users,

你有無意識到

spend an average

你地平均每日

of 52 minutes per day

耗費52分鐘

in traffic,

係交通上，

wasting your time

浪費緊你每日噶

on your daily commute?

通勤時間？

You could regain this time.

你可以贏翻哩滴時間。

This is four billion hours

哩度有40億個鐘

wasted in this country alone.

同埋24億加倫汽油

And it's 2.4 billion gallons of gasoline wasted.

浪費係哩個村莊裏。

Now I think there's a vision here, a new technology,

現在覺得有一個夢想，一種新技術，

and I'm really looking forward to a time

我好期待未來某一日

when generations after us look back at us

當下一代人回首過去睇翻我地果陣

and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

距地會覺得人類駕駛汽車哩件事係幾咁荒謬。

Thank you.

多謝大傢

(Applause)

（掌聲）