埃隆·马斯克表示，特斯拉的自动驾驶出租车仍在努力解决夜间识别与路面融为一体的动物这一难题，他将此形容为“灰色小猫在灰色沥青路面上”。与此同时，奥斯汀的服务时间已从晚上10点延长至晚上11点。欧盟机动车技术委员会将于10月6日就在全欧盟范围内批准特斯拉仅使用摄像头的传感器套件进行投票。
Elon Musk said Tesla’s robotaxis are still working on spotting animals that blend into the road at night, describing the problem as grey kittens on grey tarmac, as Austin’s hours moved to 11pm from 10pm. The EU’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles votes on bloc-wide approval of the same camera-only sensor suite on 6 October. Elon Musk says Tesla’s robotaxis still cannot reliably see pets on the road at night.
埃隆·马斯克称，特斯拉的自动驾驶出租车在夜间仍无法可靠地识别道路上的宠物。奥斯汀的服务时间现已延长一小时，直至晚上11点。欧盟将于周二就特斯拉的驾驶辅助软件进行投票。
Austin’s service now runs an hour longer, until 11pm. The European Union votes on Tesla’s driver assistance software on Tuesday. “Literally trying to avoid grey kittens on grey tarmac in the dark,” Musk said on Friday, as Electrek reported.
据Electrek报道，马斯克周五表示：“我们实际上是在黑暗中试图避免撞到灰色沥青路面上的灰色小猫。”他说，特斯拉目前主要试图解决的问题，就是在夜间难以看清宠物时避免碾压它们。
The main thing Tesla is trying to solve is not running over pets when they are hard to see at night, he said. Austin’s closing time moved from 10pm to 11pm.
奥斯汀的运营结束时间从晚上10点调整至晚上11点。该服务于2025年6月上线，当时的运营时间为早上6点至午夜，因此目前的运营窗口比刚推出时更短。
The service opened in June 2025 running from 6am to midnight, so the window is shorter now than it was at launch. Cameras need light and contrast to separate an object from the road.
摄像头需要光线和对比度才能将物体与路面区分开来，而激光雷达和雷达则不需要。
Lidar and radar do not.
马斯克在2019年称激光雷达是“徒劳之举”，在2022年称其为“诱人的局部最优解”，并在去年8月表示，激光雷达和雷达会因传感器冲突而降低安全性。新泽西州有一项法案，要求除摄像头外必须具备两种感知模式。
Musk called lidar a fool’s errand in 2019, a seductive local maximum in 2022, and said last August that lidar and radar reduce safety through sensor contention. New Jersey has a bill that would require two sensing modalities beyond cameras.
Waymo第六代车辆配备了13个摄像头、4个激光雷达和6个雷达。其约4000辆无人驾驶车辆全天候运行。
Waymo’s sixth-generation cars carry 13 cameras, four lidars and six radars. Its roughly 4,000 driverless vehicles run around the clock.
特斯拉在2021年取消了雷达，在2022年取消了超声波传感器，且从未量产搭载激光雷达的车辆。我们八月的追踪发现，奥斯汀的车辆在没有安全监控员的情况下运行，车队规模已缩减至约17辆。欧洲本周正就这些相同的摄像头做出决定。
Tesla dropped radar in 2021 and ultrasonic sensors in 2022, and has never shipped lidar. Our tracking in August found the Austin cars running without safety monitors, on a fleet down to about 17. Europe is deciding about those same cameras this week.
欧盟机动车技术委员会将于10月6日就在全欧盟范围内批准“FSD监督版”进行投票，这需要获得代表65%人口的55%成员国支持。已有六个国家通过承认荷兰的批准结果，率先完成了审批。
The Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles votes on bloc-wide approval of FSD Supervised on 6 October, needing 55% of member states representing 65% of the population. Six countries have cleared it already, through mutual recognition of the Dutch approval.
该软件属于二级系统，驾驶员仍需承担责任，因此在奥斯汀并非系统自行驾驶。摄像头也是如此。
That software is Level 2 and the driver stays liable, so it is not the system driving itself in Austin. The cameras are the same.
去年十月，两辆Model 3在美国车道上突然完全停止，并被后方车辆撞上，导致两起致命事故。两起事故均在夜间发生，时间分别约为晚上9点25分和凌晨3点刚过。
Two Model 3s stopped dead in American traffic lanes last October and were hit from behind, in two fatal crashes. Both happened in the dark, at about 9.25pm and just after 3am.
特斯拉将事故描述和软件版本列为机密商业信息予以删减，因此目前尚未确定当时运行的是哪个系统。
Tesla redacted the crash narratives and the software versions as confidential business information, so which system was running has not been established.
经过18个月以及160万公里欧洲道路数据的积累，荷兰监管机构于四月批准了FSD Supervised版本。此前，特斯拉向瑞典和荷兰监管机构提供的安全数据被研究人员称为具有误导性。
The Dutch regulator approved FSD Supervised in April, after 18 months and 1.6 million kilometres of European road data. Tesla had given Swedish and Dutch regulators safety figures that researchers called misleading.