Another Sign Of Tesla Gearing Up For Robotaxis? This Automatic Sanitization Patent Offers Clues
Another Sign Of Tesla Gearing Up For Robotaxis? This Automatic Sanitization Patent Offers Clues
EV giant Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has a patent for systems and methods of sanitizing an enclosed space that can be shared among multiple persons such as vehicle cabins as it gears up to launch its dedicated robotaxi offering.
電動汽車巨頭特斯拉公司（納斯達克股票代碼：TSLA）已經獲得了用於對封閉空間進行消毒的系統和方法的專利，該空間可以被多個人共享，例如車輛駕駛室，因爲它準備推出專用機器人出租車服務。
What Happened: The sanitization method proposed in the patent involves detecting the current environmental condition within the closed space using sensors and generating a sanitization routine based on the data.
專利提出的消毒方法包括使用傳感器檢測封閉空間中的當前環境條件，並基於數據生成消毒程序。
The routine will be aimed at adjusting the existing environmental condition towards a target condition and will be ascertained depending on the presence or absence of entities such as passengers, pets, and medicines in the vehicle, the published patent reads.
該程序旨在將現有的環境條件調整到目標條件，並根據車輛中出現或不存在的實體（例如乘客，寵物和藥物）確定，據專利公開閱讀。
The routines could include emitting disinfection vapor to sanitize the space, adjusting seat positions to allow for better sunlight, and so forth.
這些程序可能包括釋放消毒蒸氣以消毒空間，調整座位位置以獲得更好的陽光，等等。
"Current means for sanitizing shared spaces, for example manually wiping touch surface using disinfectant wipes can be time-consuming, laborious and lead to unsatisfactory sanitation conditions," the company said in the patent filing while adding that the results on these might not be easily verifiable.
公司在專利申請中表示：“目前用於消毒共享空間的方法，例如手動使用消毒紙巾擦拭觸摸表面，可能耗時冗長，並導致不令人滿意的衛生狀況。” 同時還指出這些消毒的結果可能不容易被驗證。
The patent was filed in February 2023 and published in August.
專利於2023年2月提交併於8月公開。
Why It Matters: The patent gains particular relevance as Tesla is gearing up to unveil its dedicated robotaxi offering on Aug. 8.
爲什麼重要：特斯拉計劃於8月8日推出專用的機器人出租車服務，因此該專利尤其重要。
During Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in June, Musk said that the company would operate its autonomous fleet in a manner combining Airbnb and Uber. While there will be some self-driving cars that Tesla operates by itself, private customers can add or subtract their cars to the fleet as and when they want.
在特斯拉6月份的年度股東大會上，埃隆·馬斯克表示，該公司將以Airbnb和優步的方式運營其自主車隊。雖然特斯拉會運營一些自動駕駛汽車，但私人客戶可以根據需要添加或減少其汽車到車隊中。
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives thinks that Tesla's 'comeback' story has begun with the worst of demand issues in China fading out and the company expected to launch its robotaxi product in August. The unveil, he says, could serve as a near-term catalyst to getting Tesla to a $1 trillion valuation once again.
Wedbush分析師丹·艾夫斯認爲，特斯拉的“東山再起”故事已經開始，中國的需求問題已經最壞狀態，預計該公司將於8月推出其機器人出租車產品。他說，揭幕式可以作爲將特斯拉再次推向1萬億美元估值的近期刺激因素。
Price Action: Tesla shares were up 1.07% in premarket trading on Monday, after closing 0.2% higher at $197.88 on Friday, according to data from Benzinga Pro
價格行情：根據Benzinga Pro的數據，特斯拉股票在週一盤前交易中上漲了1.07％，週五收盤時上漲了0.2％，報197.88美元。
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