谷歌自动驾驶汽车发生交通事故（中英双语）
青岛希尼尔翻译咨询有限公司（www.sinosenior.com）整理发布 2016-03-02
青岛希尼尔翻译公司（www.sinosenior.com）2016年3月2日了解到：One
of Google’s self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last
month. There were no injuries.
谷歌公司的一辆自动驾驶汽车上个月在加州与一辆公交车相撞，无人员受伤。
It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has
been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused
one.
谷歌著名的自动驾驶汽车并非首次牵扯到交通事故之中，不过引发交通事故尚属首次。
Google is to meet with California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
to discuss the incident, and determine where the blame lies.
谷歌将会晤加州机动车管理局（DMV），商讨责任的归属。
On 14 February the car, travelling at 2mph (3km/h), pulled out in
front of a public bus going 15mph (24km/h).
2月14日，当时谷歌的这辆汽车正以2迈速度（3公里/小时）行驶，试图并道时与一辆以15迈速度（24公里/小时）行驶的公交车发生碰撞。
The human in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would
slow down to let the car out, and so he did not override the car’s
self-driving computer.
汽车中的工作人员表示自己当时认为公交车会放慢速度让汽车通过，因此并未采取任何措施。
The crash happened in Mountain View, near Google’s headquarters.
这起事故发生在谷歌公司总部附近的山景城。
In a statement, Google said: "We clearly bear some responsibility,
because if our car hadn’t moved, there wouldn’t have been a collision.
谷歌公司在一份声明中表示“很明显在此次事故中我们负有一定责任，因为如果我们的汽车不变道，事故便不会发生。”
"That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop
to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be
sufficient space to do that."
“公司的测试驾驶员相信公交车会减速或停下允许汽车并入车道，当时道路上的空间非常充足。”
The company’s self-driving cars have clocked up well over a million
miles across various states in the US, and until now have only reported
minor "fender benders" - the American slang for a small collision.
谷歌自动驾驶汽车在美国各州的行驶记录已经达到100万英里，仅仅出现过几次“小的刮蹭”。
In all of those cases, other road users were to blame.
在这些事故中谷歌汽车都不属于责任方。
Google releases a monthly report detailing the testing of its
self-driving technology.
谷歌公司发布了一份月度报告，披露了无人驾驶技术测试的细节。
Ahead of the February report’s publication, due Tuesday, a traffic
incident filing was made public by the DMV.
加州机动车管理局在谷歌周二发布2月月度报告前公布了此次交通事故的报告。
A setback
挫折
"The Google AV [autonomous vehicle] test driver saw the bus
approaching in the left side mirror but believed the bus would stop or
slow to allow the Google AV to continue," the report read.
报告写道“谷歌自动驾驶汽车（AV）的测试驾驶员从左后视镜中看到了驶近的公交车，然而驾驶员认为公交车会停下或减速允许汽车通过”
"Approximately three seconds later, as the Google AV was re-entering
the centre of the lane it made contact with the side of the bus.
“大约3秒钟后，谷歌自动驾驶汽车重新驶入中央车道后和公交车的侧面相撞。”
"The Google AV was operating in autonomous mode and travelling at less
than two mph, and the bus was travelling at about 15mph at the time of
contact."
“汽车处于自动驾驶模式，时速小于2迈。公交车的时速为15迈。”
The car’s movements were made more complex, the report said, by the
presence of sandbags on the road.
报告还指出，路上还摆放着沙袋，汽车的行驶环境较为复杂。
Google said it had now refined its self-driving algorithm.
谷歌公司表示已对自动驾驶技术的算法进行了改进。
"From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses (and
other large vehicles) are less likely to yield to us than other types of
vehicles, and we hope to handle situations like this more gracefully in
the future."
“从现在开始，公司的汽车将更深刻地认识到公交车（和其他大型汽车）像其他汽车那样允许并道的机率较小。我们希望日后能够更为得体地处理这样的情况。”
If the DMV considers the Google car to be at fault for the collision,
it could be seen as a setback for the company’s ambitious autonomous
vehicle plans.
倘若加州机动车管理局认定谷歌汽车为事故的责任方，其雄心勃勃的自动驾驶计划无疑将遭受重大的挫折。
The bus crash came just four days after a legal breakthrough for the
self-driving project - the US National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration told Google it would likely give the self-driving
computer the same legal treatment as a human driver.
事故发生四天前，自动驾驶技术刚刚在法律层面取得突破：美国全国公路交通安全管理局表示非常可能给予自动驾驶汽车的计算机以人类驾驶员的法律地位。
That decision would pave the way for self-driving cars without any
typical controls, such as a steering wheel or pedals.
一旦做出这一决定，该类汽车日后可再不设方向盘或脚踏板之类的控制装置。
来源:BBC
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