Autonomous vehicles are in danger of being turned into “weapons”, leading governments around the world to block cars operated by foreign companies, the head of Baidu’s self-driving car programme has warned.
百度(Baidu)自动驾驶汽车计划负责人警告称，自主车辆存在被人用作“武器”、导致世界各国政府封杀境外公司的汽车操作系统的危险。
Qi Lu, chief operating officer at the Chinese internet group, said security concerns could become a problem for global carmakers and technology companies, including the US and China.
这家中国互联网集团的首席运营官陆奇表示，安全担忧可能成为全球汽车制造商和科技公司（包括美国和中国）面临的一个问题。
“It has nothing to do with any particular government — it has to do with the very nature of autonomy,” he said on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show last week. “You have an object that is capable of moving by itself. By definition, it is a weapon.”
“这与具体哪个政府没有关系，而是与自主驾驶本身的特性有关，”他在上周举行的消费电子展(CES)间隙表示。“你有一件能够自己移动的物体。从定义上说，这就是一种武器。”
Increasingly, self-driving technology is seen as advancing faster than regulators can keep up with. Regional and national governments are grappling with the issue of when to allow autonomous cars on to their roads and under what conditions.
自主驾驶技术日益被视为发展太快，使监管者难以跟上。地区和国家政府正在苦苦思索的问题包括：何时允许自主驾驶汽车在辖内上路？在什么条件下允许这么做？