Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says Warren Buffett-Backed EV Maker BYD Should Change Approach To Autonomy 'Fast Or They're In Trouble'
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says Warren Buffett-Backed EV Maker BYD Should Change Approach To Autonomy 'Fast Or They're In Trouble'
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk warned on Wednesday that its biggest rival, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway-backed Chinese EV maker BYD Co Ltd (OTC:BYDDY), needs to change its approach to vehicle autonomy fast to avoid going obsolete.
特斯拉公司（NASDAQ:TSLA）首席執行官伊隆·馬斯克在週三發出警告，稱其最大的競爭對手，禾倫·巴菲特支持的中國電動汽車製造商比亞迪股份有限公司（OTC:BYDDY），需要快速改變其車輛自動駕駛的方法，以避免變得過時。
What Happened: "BYD needs to change course fast or they're in trouble," Musk wrote on X in response. In a subsequent post, Musk clarified that he meant "trouble" to mean going obsolete.
事件經過：馬斯克在X上回應道：“BYD需要快速改變路線，否則他們會陷入麻煩。”隨後，馬斯克在另一篇文章中澄清，他認爲“麻煩”意味着變得過時。
The CEO was responding to a comment from a BYD spokesperson Li Yunfei from April 2023 that fully autonomous driving is "basically impossible." Yunfei then said that businesses that invest a lot of money into self-driving technology will prove it leads nowhere after many years.
CEO是在回應比亞迪發言人李雲飛在2023年4月的評論時提出的，李雲飛表示，全自動駕駛“基本上是不可能的。”然後，他說，那些投資大量資金進行自動駕駛技術研發的公司，很多年後都會證明這條路走不通。
BYD needs to change course fast or they're in trouble
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 31, 2024
比亞迪需要立即轉變方向，否則他們就會陷入麻煩。
——埃隆·馬斯克（@elonmusk），2024年7月31日
The spokesperson's comment came into focus yet again after Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) announced a partnership with BYD to bring 100,000 new BYD vehicles onto the Uber platform across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The two companies, Uber said, will also collaborate on future BYD autonomous-capable vehicles to be deployed on the Uber platform.
發言人的評論又一次引起關注，因爲優步科技（NYSE:UBER）宣佈與比亞迪建立合作伙伴關係，在歐洲、拉丁美洲、中東、加拿大、澳大利亞和新西蘭將100,000輛比亞迪新車引入優步平台。優步表示，雙方還將在未來合作研發比亞迪的具備自主駕駛能力的汽車部署到優步平台上。
Why It Matters: Tesla is currently laser-focused on vehicle autonomy and is attempting to improve its full self-driving (FSD) driver assistance software to enable vehicles to operate without human intervention. However, it presently requires active driver supervision.
重要性在於：特斯拉現在專注於車輛自動駕駛技術，並正在努力改善其全自動駕駛（FSD）駕駛員輔助軟件，使車輛能夠在沒有人爲干預的情況下運行。然而，目前這需要駕駛員的積極監督。
Tesla is also looking to launch a dedicated robotaxi product on Oct. 10.
特斯拉還計劃於10月10日推出一款專用的自動駕駛出租產品。
Musk remains optimistic that Tesla will eventually achieve true autonomy, comparing self-driving cars to elevators that transport passengers to their destinations.
馬斯克仍然對特斯拉最終實現真正的自動駕駛持樂觀態度，並將自動駕駛汽車比作把乘客運送到目的地的電梯。
"Even if I got kidnapped by aliens tomorrow, Tesla will solve autonomy, maybe a little slower, but it would solve autonomy for vehicles at least," Musk said during Tesla's first-quarter earnings call. "If somebody doesn't believe Tesla is going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company."
“即使我明天被外星人綁架，特斯拉也將解決自動駕駛問題，可能會慢一點，但至少能解決車輛的自動駕駛問題，”馬斯克在特斯拉第一季度業績會上說。“如果有人不相信特斯拉將解決自動駕駛問題，我認爲他們不應該成爲這家公司的投資者。”
Musk reiterated the same sentiment during the company's second-quarter earnings call last month.
馬斯克在公司第二季度業績會上再次表達了同樣的觀點。
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Image made via photos on Shutterstock and BYD
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