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Right now, there's a shortage of truck drivers in the US and worldwide, exacerbated by the e-commerce boom brought on by the pandemic. 如今，美国和全球都存在卡车司机短缺的情形，而疫情带来的电商繁荣更是雪上加霜。 One solution to the problem is autonomous trucks, and several companies are in a race to be the first to launch one. 其中的一个解决办法就是自动驾驶卡车，好几家公司都竞相推出第一台这样的车。  Among them is San Diego-based TuSimple. 其中就有位于圣地亚哥的TuSimple公司。 Founded in 2015, TuSimple has completed about 2 million miles of road tests with its 70 prototype trucks across the US, China and Europe. 这家公司成立于2015年，已经用它们的70多台卡车概念模型在美国，中国和欧洲进行了两百万英里的测试了。 Although these are simply commercially available trucks retrofitted with its technology, TuSimple has deals in place with two of the world's largest truck manufacturers -- Navistar in the US and Traton, Volkswagen's trucking business, in Europe -- to design and build fully autonomous models, which it hopes to launch by 2024. 尽管他们就是利用跑商务的卡车重新组长了新技术部件， TuSimple已经跟全球最大的两家卡车制造商达成了协议——美国的海军之星公司，以及欧洲的经营货车运输的特雷顿公司——来设计并打造全自动的卡车模型，预计于2024年上市。  TuSimple's latest road test involved hauling fresh produce 951 miles, from Nogales, Arizona to Oklahoma City. TuSimple最新的路面测试是让模型车把鲜货从亚利桑那州的诺加里斯送到俄克拉荷马市。 The pickup and the dropoff were handled by a human driver, but for the bulk of the route -- from Tucson to Dallas -- the truck drove itself. 装货和卸货是由人力完成的，但是路程中大部分—从土桑到达拉斯市—这辆卡车都是自动行驶的。 "Today, because the system is not fully ready, we have a safety driver and a safety engineer on board at all times when we're testing, but we drove in full autonomy: the driver wasn't touching the wheel," said Cheng Lu, TuSimple's president and CEO. “如今因为系统还没有到位，在我们测试卡车的时候，全程都会有一个安全司机和安全工程师坐在车里，但我们是用全自动模式驾驶的：司机都没碰方向盘，”陆诚说道，他是TuSimple的总裁和首席执行官。 The journey was completed in 14 hours versus the usual 24 with a human driver, mostly because a truck doesn't need to sleep. 这趟旅程在14个小时就完成了，而平常靠人驾驶的话需要24小时，节约的时间大部分是因为自动驾驶的卡车不需要睡觉。 "In the US, a driver can only work 11 hours a day. We simply had a handoff when our first pair of drivers had to stop because they reached their 11 hours of operation," said Lu. 陆先生说，“在美国，一名卡车司机一天最多工作11个小时。当我们的第一队司机工作满11小时之后，就会进行交接，” That, of course, negates the advantage of an autonomous system, so the idea is that once TuSimple's trucks hit the market, there will be no need to have anyone onboard. 这当然就会影响自动驾驶汽车的优势，所以他们想的办法是，等这种自动卡车上市后，就不需要再有人坐在车里了。 感谢关注 跟Amber一起看世界 |
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