保護就業.印度拒絕引進無人駕駛汽車

DRIVERLESS CARS, labelled as the future of automobiles with Google, Apple and Tesla racing to crack a potentially multi-billion-dollar market, will not be allowed in India because they will lead to more unemployment, according to Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari.

無人駕駛汽車，一直被視爲未來交通工具發展的趨勢，谷歌、蘋果以及特斯拉等公司也將其當做一個具有幾十億美元潛力的項目，相互競爭。然而，據印度道路運輸和高速公路部部長尼汀·加德卡里稱，由於無人駕駛會導致更多人失業，印度將不會使用這種汽車。

“We will not allow driverless cars in India. We don’t need it. Unemployment is a huge problem in our country. Each car gives job to a driver,” said Gadkari on Monday, while responding to queries from reporters.

本週一，加德卡里在接受記者採訪時說：“印度將不會引進無人駕駛汽車，我們不需要這個。失業率一直居高不下，有人開車，司機纔會有工作。”

“I saw in Sweden a 70-year-old man was driving a taxi. There (Western countries), they have less people. Here, we have more people and they need jobs. Driverless cars will take away those jobs. I am certain on this issue,” he said.

他說：“我曾在瑞典看到過一個70歲的老人開出租。他們（指西方國家）人口少。而印度人口衆多，工作需求量大。無人駕駛汽車將會使司機們失業。在這個問題上，我的態度很明確。”

According to a study by Boston Consulting Group, the global autonomous cars market is expected to be worth $42 billion by 2025 and $77 billion by 2035. A quarter of all cars sold could be autonomous vehicles by then, the study has said.

據波士頓諮詢集團統計，到2025年，全球的自動駕駛車市場市值將達到420億美元，而截至2035年，這個數值將達到770億美元。該報告還稱，那時，無人駕駛汽車的銷量將佔全球總銷量的四分之一。

According to current prototype versions, such cars navigate traffic with the help of multiple inputs from GPS, and laser, infra-red and computer-vision technologies.

從最新的無人駕駛車原型來看，這種車會採用全球定位系統，鐳射和紅外線技術以及計算機視覺多項技術來爲汽車導航。

Technology experts say autonomous cars reduce chances of collision and increase traffic efficiency.

因此，技術專家們稱自動駕駛可以減少事故發生的概率，提高效率。

In 2015, during his visit to the US, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met Tesla chief Elon Musk at the company’s headquarters in San Jose.

2015年，加德里卡在美國訪問時曾與特斯拉的老總艾倫·穆斯克在聖荷西的特斯拉總部進行過會面。

During the meeting, the two had discussed the possibility of manufacturing affordable cars for India. Last month, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed industry speculation that his company was working on autonomous systems in driverless cars and called it the “mother of all AI projects”. However, driverless cars have also led to questions being raised over insurance liability, and the legal framework governing them in the transport ecosystem.

他們討論了爲印度生產經濟適用車的可行性大小。上個月，蘋果公司的CEO庫克證實了業界猜測，稱蘋果正在研究用於無人駕駛技術的自動系統，還將此技術稱爲“人工智能之母”。但是，無人駕駛技術也在保險責任方面產生了許多問題，法律在交通系統方面的規定也制約着無人駕駛技術的發展。