英语演讲 TED Sebastian Thrun Googles driverless car.pdfVIP

Sebastian Thrun: Googles driverless car As a boy, I loved cars. When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident. Like this. And then I decided Id dedicate my life to saving one million people every year. Now I havent succeeded, so this is just a progress report, but Im here to tell you a little bit about self -driving cars. I saw the concept first in the DARPA Grand Challenges where the U.S. government issued a prize to build a self-driving car that could navigate a desert. And even though a hundred teams were there, these cars went nowhere. So we decided at Stanford to build a different self -driving car. We built the hardware and the software. We made it learn from us, and we set it free in the desert. And the unimaginable happened: it became the first car to ever return from a DARPA Grand Challenge, winning Stanford 2 million dollars. Yet I still hadnt saved a single life. Since, our work has focused on building driving cars that can drive anywhere by themselves -- any street in California . Weve driven 140,000 miles. Our cars have sensors by which they magically can see everything around them and make decisions about every aspect of driving. Its the perfect driving mechanism. Weve driven in cities, like in San Francisco here. Weve drive n from San Francisco to Los Angeles on Highway 1. Weve encountered joggers, busy highways, toll booths, and this is without a person in the loop; the car just drives itself. In fact, while we drove 140,000 miles, people didnt even notice. Mountain roads, day and night, and even crooked Lombard Street in San Francisco. (Laughter) Sometimes our cars get so crazy, they even do little stunts. (Video) Man: Oh, my God. What? Second Man: Its driving itself. Sebastian Thrun: Now I cant get my friend Harold