Self-Driving Cars Probably Won’t Boost Commuter Productivity
自动驾驶汽车可能不会提高乘车时工作效率
Sixty-two percent of survey respondents said self-driving cars would not make them more productive. Another 36 percent said they’d be too concerned to do anything but watch the road. Erika Beras reports.
62%的调查对象说，自动驾驶汽车并不会提高他们的驾驶时工作效率。另外36%的人说他们会太过在意道路情况而不能做任何事。埃丽卡·贝拉斯报道。
撰文/播音：埃丽卡·贝拉斯(Erika Beras)
翻译：郭鑫鹏
审校：丁可含
Advocates for self-driving cars love to tout the benefits the cars would bring, such as fewer accidents and less congestion. Another alleged value of being a passenger rather than a driver is more productivity-you could work rather than concentrate on driving. But most people might not spend their newfound free time in self-driving cars whittling down their to-do lists.
自动驾驶汽车的支持者们喜欢展示这些汽车带来的好处，例如更低的事故发生率和更少的交通堵塞。其他作为一名乘客而不是司机的价值在于，你可以提高工作效率，因为你可以工作而不是专注于驾驶。但是大多数人并不会在自动驾驶汽车中得到的自由时间中做那些计划做的事。
That’s according to a study by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at The University of Michigan’s Sustainable Worldwide Transportation program. [Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle, Would Self-Driving Vehicles Increase Occupant Productivity?]
从密歇根大学可持续全球运输项目中迈克·西瓦克和布兰登·沙多的研究中我们可以得到上述结论。
The researchers surveyed people in the U.S., Australia, China, India, Japan and the U.K. And about 62 percent of respondents said self-driving cars would not make them more productive. For one thing, 23 percent of the group said they won’t ride in a self-driving car in the first place. And then there are the people who get motion sickness-they obviously can’t work. Plus, another 36 percent said they’d be too concerned to do anything but watch the road.
研究者们对美国、澳大利亚、中国、印度、日本和英国的人做调查，约62%的调查对象说自动驾驶汽车并不会提高他们的工作效率。首先，23%的人说他们压根就不会乘坐自动驾驶汽车。然后还有一部分人晕车，因此他们不可能在车上工作。另外36%的人说他们太过在意路况而不能做任何事。
The researchers also noted that most trips average 19 minutes-not really long enough to get anything truly substantial done. Or to catch some quality zzzzz’s.
研究者们也注意到大多数路程平均只有19分钟，这并不足以做完任何事，或者获得有质量的睡眠。
Of course, the level of apprehension people experience in self-driving cars, or about getting into them, may change in the long-run. But this study is another reminder that there’s still a lot to be figured out before automatic autos rule the roadways.
当然，以后人们会慢慢接受自动驾驶汽车。但是从这项研究中我们可以看到，自动驾驶的普及还有很长的一段路要走。
-Erika Beras
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