今年1月我评测特斯拉完全自动驾驶（FSD）软件时，曾称其为“令人印象深刻”的驾驶辅助功能，但仍让我意犹未尽。我梦想着能在例行的旧金山至洛杉矶400英里（约644公里）长途驾驶中随时开启自动驾驶系统——翘起双脚、听听音乐，理想情况下甚至能睡上一觉，而无需盯着路况。这一直是特斯拉描绘未来的核心卖点之一。“有了自动驾驶，你就能夺回自己的时间，”埃隆·马斯克曾表示。这一愿景或许很快成真，只是别指望马上就能实现长途自动驾驶出行。
When I reviewed Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in January, I hailed it as an "impressive" driver-assistance feature that left me wanting more. I dreamed of being able to flip the autonomous driving system on whenever I make my routine 400-mile trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles — kick my feet up, listen to music, and ideally fall asleep without having to supervise the road. That's been part of Tesla's ultimate pitch for the future. "With autonomy, you get your time back," Elon Musk has said. And the pitch may soon come true. Just don't expect to make long self-driven road trips quite yet.
周三，在特斯拉第三季度财报电话会上，公司AI副总裁阿肖克·埃卢斯瓦米勾勒出了一幅更为保守的图景：私家车版FSD无监督功能初期将是什么样子。埃卢斯瓦米表示，面向私人拥有的特斯拉车辆，无监督FSD将在“明年第二季度左右”随FSD V15版本推出。但有一个限制条件：该功能仅能在特斯拉已开展Robotaxi（机器人出租车）服务的区域运行，这仅占美国道路上特斯拉车辆总行驶里程覆盖面积的一小部分。
On Wednesday, during Tesla's Q3 earnings call, Ashok Elluswamy, the company's VP of AI, painted a more modest picture of what FSD unsupervised will look like for a personal car — at least at first. Elluswamy said unsupervised FSD is coming "somewhere around Q2 next year" for privately owned Teslas, with the rollout of FSD V15. The caveat is that it will only be operable in areas where Tesla already operates its Robotaxi service, which represents a small fraction of square miles for the total number of Teslas on US roads.
Robotaxi平台目前在七个大都市区的部分区域提供服务：奥斯汀、达拉斯、休斯顿、迈阿密、奥兰多、坦帕和旧金山湾区。在湾区，所有特斯拉Robotaxi均由人类安全员监督。“唯一的额外要求是确保例如客户的Model Y能纳入特斯拉为实现完全自动驾驶而设定的电子围栏和车队管理体系中，”埃卢斯瓦米说。
The Robotaxi platform is available in parts of seven metropolitan regions: Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and the San Francisco Bay Area. In the Bay Area, all Tesla robotaxis are supervised by a human operator. "The only additional requirement is to make sure that, for example, the customer Model Ys can be part of the geofences and the fleet management that Tesla has for it to be fully autonomous," Elluswamy said.
换言之，你的特斯拉或许能自己开，但前提是你身处特斯拉Robotaxi运营区域内。以奥斯汀为例，覆盖范围约为城市260平方英里（约673平方公里），不含高速公路。这与其他志在自动驾驶的车企所描绘的蓝图类似。总部位于圣何塞的车企Tensor（特斯拉）计划推出一款豪华轿车，宣称可实现自动驾驶。
In other words, your Tesla may be able to drive itself, but only if you're within the zones where Tesla Robotaxi is operating. If you're in Austin, that could cover about 260 square miles of the city, excluding high-speed roadways. That's similar to what other aspiring self-driving car companies have pitched. Tensor, a San Jose-based automaker, aims to sell a luxury sedan that it says can drive itself.
不过，该公司告诉《商业内幕》（Business Insider），这一自动驾驶功能将仅在受限的电子围栏范围内运行。特斯拉没有说明为何需要在初期将无人监管FSD的发布限制在电子围栏内，尽管一旦公司宣称“是的，我们的技术现在让你可以把眼睛从路面上移开”，很可能会面临需要解决的责任归属问题。毕竟，自动驾驶是一个难以解决的问题。
However, the self-driving feature will only operate within restricted geofences, the company told Business Insider. Tesla didn't say why it needs to limit the release of unsupervised FSD to geofences at first, although there are likely questions about liability that the company will have to address once it declares, Yes, our technology now lets you take your eyes off the road. Autonomy is a difficult problem to solve after all.
在电话会议上，Elluswamy 否定了竞争对手能追上特斯拉FSD的观点。“当他们陷入这个问题的长尾阶段——长到人们意识不到——任何头脑清醒的人都不应尝试去解决这个问题，”他说，“难度太大了。”
During the call, Elluswamy shut down the idea that competitors could catch up to Tesla's FSD. "When they get in the long tail of this problem — it's so long that people don't realize — anyone with a sane mind should not attempt to solve this problem," he said. "It's so difficult."