Title:Elon Musk Says Tesla Self-Driving Features Will Start Arriving in August

Tesla CEO Elon Musk disclosed on Twitter Sunday that the company plans to roll out its  "Version 9"  software in August of this year, and that the update will  "begin to enable full self-driving features."

特斯拉首席执行官埃伦·马斯克(Elon Musk)星期天在Twitter上披露，该公司计划在今年8月推出其“版本9”软件，并且更新“将开始”启用完全自驾功能。

The phrasing here is key. Musk is not promising that Teslas will become fully autonomous in August, only that there will be activation of a subset of features that will eventually add up to full autonomy. And while cars produced since October of 2016 have all the hardware Tesla says is necessary for self-driving, enabling that hardware requires paying a total of $8,000 in optional fees for many Tesla vehicles.

此处的措辞很关键，马斯克并不希望Teslas在8月份完全自驾，只是激活了一组最终会促成完全自驾的特征。虽然2016年10月以来生产的汽车拥有Tesla的所有硬件，但为了实现自驾，硬件需要支付8,000美元的选用费。

That issue is better in latest Autopilot software rolling out now & fully fixed in August update as part of our long-awaited Tesla Version 9. To date, Autopilot resources have rightly focused entirely on safety. With V9, we will begin to enable full self-driving features.

迄今为止，自动试验资源完全集中在安全问题上。通过V9，我们将开始实现完全自驾功能。

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 10, 2018

It's too early to say what those specific features might be, but the announcement comes as a bit of a surprise, given the dinged reputation of Tesla's self-driving tech at the moment. Despite its name, Tesla's existing Autopilot technology is not true self-driving capability, but a set of advanced safety features that have also helped Tesla gather data for training its self-driving software. Autopilot has been involved in a handful of wrecks lately, including at least two in which preliminary reports suggest Autopilot itself may have been at fault.

现在说出这些具体特点还为时过早，但是考虑到泰斯拉的自驾技术目前名声不佳，宣布这一消息有点让人吃惊。特斯拉现有的自动驾驶技术虽然名副其实，但并不是真正的自驾能力，而是一套先进的安全特性，也帮助特斯拉收集数据，用于培训其自驾软件。

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Media coverage of the most recent crash triggered a weekslong Twitter crusade against the press by Musk, who argued that coverage of Autopilot-linked wrecks ignored the larger fact that such features were already safer than unassisted driving. The negative coverage of Autopilot, combined with ongoing challenges with Model 3 production, battered Tesla's stock, though it has recovered some losses this month.

媒体对最近一次事故的报道引发了马斯克(Musk)对媒体的一场为期一周的推特运动，他们辩称，对自动驾驶的报道忽略了一个更大的事实，即这些特征已经比未经测试的驾驶更为安全。Autopile的负面覆盖面加上目前的挑战以及模式3的生产，严重打击了Tesla的股票，不过本月已经收回了一些亏损。

Setting a firm date for the start of the self-driving rollout suggests Musk remains very confident in his tech—but his careful phrasing in the offhand tweet leaves a huge escape clause. Individual self-driving  "features"  may amount to little more than further enhancements of Autopilot. There's still no clear deadline for when a Tesla will be able to fulfill the company's promise that the cars will take trips  "with no action required by the person in the driver's seat."

为开始自我驾照确定一个确定的日期表明，马斯克对于他的技术仍然非常自信，但他在粗略的tweet中的谨慎措辞留下了一个巨大的逃生条款。个人自驾驶“特性”可能比汽车驾驶员的进一步增强还要多。对于特斯拉何时能够履行公司关于汽车将乘坐的诺言，没有明确的最后期限。

And continuing a piecemeal, step-by-step transition towards full autonomy, while a good way to build on steady progress, could actually increase Tesla's crash-related headline risk. That's because, according to many experts, autonomous features are riskiest when human drivers have to maintain attention even while they don't have full control—that is, with mid-capability systems. Several Tesla crashes have, according to both the company and government investigators, been caused by drivers placing too much faith in Autopilot, taking their hands off the steering wheel and their eyes off the road. Continually touting further self-driving 'features', without actually activating full autonomy—even while reducing the intensity of Autopilot attention reminders—might be inviting more of the same.