谷歌自动驾驶汽车会比人类司机更安全_时事

谷歌自动驾驶汽车会比人类司机更安全

On Wednesday morning, during Google’s annualmeeting, a shareholder named John M. Simpsonstood up to question the company’s top executivesabout its self-driving car program. They were notfriendly questions.

周三早上，谷歌(Google)举行年会时，一位名叫约翰·M·辛普森(John M. Simpson)的股东站起来，向公司的高管提问关于自动驾驶汽车项目的问题。这些问题可并不友好。

Simpson, 67, works for a nonprofit called ConsumerWatchdog, where he directs its Privacy Project. Inrecent years, he has focused largely on Google,which, he told me, he hopes to prod into “being more respectful of people’s privacy whenthey do business. Owning Google stock allows him to ask questions at the annual meeting.

67岁的辛普森供职于一家名为消费者监督(Consumer Watchdog)的非营利机构，是该机构隐私项目(PrivacyProject)的主管。近几年来，他基本上都在关注谷歌，他告诉我，他希望督促这家公司“在经营业务时更尊重人们的隐私。由于持有谷歌的股份，他可以在一年一度的会议上提问。

In the run-up to this week’s meeting, Simpson issued a string of press releases critical ofGoogle’s self-driving vehicles. He feared that Google would collect data from car owners,stripping away even more of people’s privacy. He noted that Google’s “autonomous cars, asthey’re called, have been involved in 11 accidents (two recent fender-benders brings it up to13). He listed what he said were the technology’s flaws: for instance, that it can’t make outhand signals from a driver in another car.