Elon Musk: The future we're building -- and boring
伊隆·马斯克: 我们创造的未来……和无聊公司
Elon Musk is the CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). Full bio
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Elon, hey, welcome back to TED.
an exciting future might look like,
激动人心的未来,
the first question a little ironic:
听起来有点讽刺:
be a 3D network of tunnels
地下三维管道
soul-destroying things is traffic.
事情之一就是堵车。
in every part of the world.
that's been shown of this.
首次公开展示。
So this is the first time --
这是第一次——
that are important
and exit of the tunnel
that's on an elevator,
滑板放在电梯里,
and exits to the tunnel network
和出口跟公路对接起来
to operate at 200 kilometers an hour.
每小时200公里。
or about 130 miles per hour.
也就是每小时130英里。
to get from, say, Westwood to LAX
Westwood到洛杉矶机场
of toll road-type basis.
alleviates some traffic
if people noticed it in the video,
注意到视频中的一个细节,
to how many levels of tunnel you can have.
隧道的层数。
than you can go up.
than the tallest buildings are tall,
摩天大楼要长多了,
level of urban congestion
立体隧道网
is that if you add one layer of tunnels,
如果我们加了一层隧道,
it will get used up,
但是很快拥堵又起来了,
back with congestion.
又开始拥堵。
arbitrary number of tunnels,
任意数量的隧道,
it's incredibly expensive to dig,
隧道挖起来特别烧钱,
the LA subway extension,
洛杉矶地铁线扩建,
a two-and-a-half mile extension
2.5英里那么长
for two billion dollars.
to do the subway extension in LA.
成本大概10亿一英里。
utility subway in the world.
通勤地铁线路。
to dig tunnels normally.
挖隧道很难。
at least a tenfold improvement
将隧道的建设成本
an order of magnitude improvement,
一个数量级的改进,
is to cut the tunnel diameter
according to regulations
maybe 28 feet in diameter
可能是28英尺
and emergency vehicles
允许救护车通过
for combustion engine cars.
留足充分的通风机制。
to what we're attempting,
我们目前尝试的那样,
to get an electric skate through,
足够一个汽车滑板通过,
by a factor of four,
with the cross-sectional area.
纵切面积有直接关系。
of magnitude improvement right there.
大概半个数量级的成本。
for half the time, then they stop,
挖掘机挖一段时间就停下来,
is putting in reinforcements
tunneling and reinforcing,
a factor of two improvement.
at their power or thermal limits,
达到热力学定律的极限,
to the machine substantially.
at least a factor of two,
improvement on top of that.
再提高四五倍。
straightforward series of steps
比较明确的步骤
of an order of magnitude improvement
from "South Park,"
of going 14 times faster
慢吞吞的隧道机器
dreaming about future cities,
在构想未来城市的时候,
the solution is flying cars, drones, etc.
无人机,等等。
so I like things that fly.
我喜欢会飞的东西。
against flying things,
飞行物的偏见,
will be very high.
flying over your head,
飞过你的头顶,
going all over the place,
从你头上穿过,
"Well, I feel better about today."
“嗯,我今天感觉不错。”
"Did they service their hubcap,
and guillotine me?"
3D networks of tunnels underneath.
立体交通隧道。
to use for this Hyperloop idea
几年前你公开出来的
sort of puttering around
这件事情上
adjacent to SpaceX,
一个Hyperloop实验轨道
ideas in transport.
the biggest vacuum chamber in the world
世界上最大的真空管道
but it was kind of a hobby thing,
不过只算是业余爱好,
to push the student pods,
来推进学生做的胶囊仓,
how fast we can make the pusher go
如果没有载重
than the world's fastest bullet train
最快的子弹头列车更快
into tiny pieces or go quite fast.
速度已经非常快了。
then, a Hyperloop in a tunnel
以后,Hyperloop在隧道里,
in order to make a tunnel,
a tunnel wall to be good
设计足够硬
that automatically,
to resist the water table,
承受地下水的压力,
capable of holding vacuum.
is in Elon's future to running Hyperloop?
可以长到什么规模?
to go underground the entire way
从地下穿过
a lot of buildings and houses,
well, it's going to be pretty annoying
tunnel diameters beneath your house,
深度挖的话,
to detect it being dug at all.
to detect the tunnel being dug,
for that device from the Israeli military,
军方那里赚到一大笔钱,
tunnels from Hamas,
挖的隧道,
that try and detect drug tunnels.
探测毒贩的隧道。
at absorbing vibrations,
非常的好,
is below a certain level,
seismic instrument,
a new company to do this
hobby looks like.
and people doing it part time.
but it's making good progress, so --
但是没想到进度喜人,所以——
cars and transport through Tesla.
for the tunneling project
and where they're self-driving,
都是自动驾驶的,
more cars on the roads
that when you make cars autonomous,
and that will alleviate congestion.
where it's much cheaper to go by car
叫个计程车就会很便宜
will be better than that of a bus.
will be much greater with shared autonomy,
汽车的时候就会更多,
with the goal of persuading the world
was the future of cars,
people were laughing at you.
every auto manufacturer
serious electrification plans
has some electric vehicle program.
about transitioning entirely to electric,
are still pursuing fuel cells,
and say, you know, "We did it."
and you go on and focus on other stuff?
你可以将重心转入其它行业了?
as far into the future as I can imagine,
继续主导特斯拉的发展,
things that we have coming.
to be coming in July-ish.
for starting production in July.
that people are so excited about
would look like.
in Model S right now.
only cameras and GPS.
or radar being used here.
which is essentially what a person uses.
跟我们人类使用的差不多。
is meant to be navigated
it's not solved.
问题就没有解决。
so heavily on having a vision neural net
训练视觉神经网络,
are going the LIDAR route.
be superhuman with just cameras.
ten times better than humans would,
have eight cameras in them.
for being able to go cross-country
到今年年底的时候
of the year, fully autonomous.
of the year, you're saying,
without touching the steering wheel,
不需要碰方向盘,
by the end of 2017.
November or December of this year,
from a parking lot in California
从加州某个停车场,
during the entire journey.
of Teslas driving all these roads.
在路上到处行驶。
of data of that national road system.
that will be interesting
it will be able to do that route
即使道路临时改了,
at one specific route, that's one thing,
很好的表现,这是一回事,
really be very good,
但是更好的是,
to LA to New York.
and make it Seattle-Florida,
regulation for a second,
will be able to buy one of your cars
off the wheel and go to sleep
is not how do you make it work
你能够以
one in a thousand times,
会出一次车祸,
to be comfortable falling asleep.
or a thousand lifetimes,
都不会出车祸
if I were to live a thousand lives,
如果我有一千条命,
never experience a crash,
is that people may actually
是人们可能实际上
to think that this is safe,
incident happen that puts things back.
将人们的预期拉回来。
is likely to at least mitigate the crash,
可能至少能够减轻车祸,
about vehicle safety
a human driver gets in a car,
人类驾驶员坐在车里,
that is their fault.
那是驾驶员的失误。
need to be than a person
人类驾驶员好多少时,
literally safe hands-off driving,
无人驾驶开始实施,
the whole industry seems massive,
of people being able to buy a car,
买得起车的人说,
and then you let it go
让车辆自己去,
service to other people,
给其他人提供服务,
of your lease of that car,
买车的分期贷款,
this is what will happen.
to use that car exclusively,
only by friends and family,
who are rated five star,
but not other times.
某些事件独占。
to announce this in September,
anything you could show us today?
今天可以透露的?
a teaser shot of the truck.
where we want to be cautious
关于自动驾驶特性,
just a little friendly neighborhood truck.
小巧友善的零家卡车。
long-range semitruck.
the heavy-duty trucking loads.
长途重型卡车的负载的。
people do not today think is possible.
power or it doesn't have enough range,
也跑不了那么远,
will tug the diesel semi uphill.
柴油动力车拽上坡。
And short term, these aren't driverless.
that truck drivers want to drive.
really fun about this
with an electric motor,
of internal combustion engine car,
that looks like a hill.
around like a sports car.
It's, like, single speed.
to be made here somewhere.
and I don't know that it ends well,
for the first truck.
because you're driving around
and you're in this giant truck.
你又是坐在这种大卡车里。
already driven a prototype?
around the parking lot,
driving this giant truck
OK, from a really badass picture
from "Desperate Housewives" or something.
the picture of the future
in the driveway.
the electric car and the house,
stacked up against the side of the house,
well, admittedly, it's a real fake house.
嗯,公认的,真的样板房。
basically solar power, the ability to --
the texture and the color
sort of microlouvers in the glass,
百叶窗的微型结构,
at the roof from street level
看这个屋顶
behind it or not.
from a helicopter,
to look through and see
a solar cell behind them and some do not.
有一些没有。
that are likely to see a lot of sun,
多照射到的地方,
super affordable, right?
than just tiling the roof.
要经济得多。
that the cost of the roof
than the cost of a normal roof
将会比一个普通屋顶
the warranty be infinity,
like were just talking rubbish,
in a couple week's time, I think,
开始推广,
with two, two initially,
一开始有两种,
will be introduced early next year.
could end up having this type of roofing?
替换成这种屋顶?
the time scale here
is replaced every 20 to 25 years.
all roofs immediately.
if you say were to fast-forward
that does not have solar.
that people don't get here
还没有到这个程度,
the economics of solar power,
太阳能的经济效应,
enough sunlight on their roof
有充足的光照,
power all their needs.
relative to the roof area,
have enough roof area
of lithium-ion batteries,
the core competency.
the world's largest manufacturing plant
of lithium-ion batteries,
a diamond shape overall,
it'll look like a giant diamond,
of batteries a year.
We think probably more, but yeah.
会更多一些,不过,是的。
being produced right now.
CA: You guys put out this video.
CA:你的员工放了这段视频。
without a strobe light.
about what makes an exciting future
创在一个令人兴奋的未来
feel guilty about energy.
不用再有罪恶感。
does it take to get us there?
才能帮助我们达到目标?
off this vast fossil fuel thing.
that you can picture that project.
announce another two this year.
今年再建设两座超级工厂。
and four Gigafactories later this year.
about politics, only one.
but I do want to ask you this.
giving advice to a guy --
为一个人提供建议 ——
really believe in climate change,
who think you shouldn't be doing that.
of going around the room
every month or two.
that there are people in the room
of doing something about climate change,
and in favor of climate change.
but at least the words were said.
但是该说的我都说了。
a kind of incredibly ambitious dream
并且难以置信的梦想
that were actually reusable.
What are we looking at here?
我们现在看到了什么?
very high and fast in space.
at sort of Mach 7 or so,
the sped-up version.
figured out how to do it,
what, five or six times?
one of the rockets that landed.
and flew it again,
继续回收,
of an orbital booster
的重复飞行,
that reusability is only relevant
就是可重用性只有在
to Boeing in-between flights.
把飞机送回波音公司。
to dream of this really ambitious idea
野心勃勃的梦想
this outrageous rocket to do it.
火箭来实现这个目标。
the scale of this thing.
you can see that's a person.
a 40-story skyscraper?
大概40层的摩天大楼?
the thrust of the Saturn V moon rocket.
rocket humanity ever created before.
多四倍的推进力。
EM: Yeah.
EM:对呀。
a quarter of a million pounds of thrust,
大概是25万磅的推动力,
of 120 747s, with all engines blazing.
如果引擎都打开的话。
designed to escape Earth's gravity,
地心引力的机器,
take a fully loaded 747,
a fully loaded 747 with maximum fuel,
加满油的747,
maximum cargo on the 747 --
this Interplanetary Transport System
30 years time? 20 years time?
30年后?20年后?
an eight- to 10-year time frame.
are more aggressive, but I think --
with other rockets,
will be truly enormous.
on it in your lifetime,
what you've said you'd love to do?
and you want to live.
有活下去的兴趣。
being out there among the stars
在多个行星上生活
that we're going to have.
迎来的未来的话。
as an either or,
happening on the planet now
叫人绝望的事情,
to, you know, you pick your issue.
你挑了你关心的问题。
a fair old bit to actually do that
实质性的工作
from the standpoint of probabilities.
stream of probabilities,
that affect those probabilities
会改变可能性
or slow down another thing.
或是减慢一件事情。
to the probability stream.
引入新的东西。
will happen no matter what.
if Tesla never existed,
特斯拉从未存在,
it means you have unsustainable energy.
意味着你有不可再生能源。
will drive civilization
of a company like Tesla
the advent of sustainable energy,
可再生能源的到来,
of a company like Tesla,
potentially more than a decade,
可能超过十年,
aspirational good of Tesla.
species and space-faring civilization.
和在宇宙中分型的文明。
this is not inevitable.
这非常重要。
I think is largely inevitable,
很大程度上是必然发生的。
is definitely not inevitable.
显然不是必然要发生的未来。
to send somebody to the moon.
take people to low Earth orbit.
could take no one to orbit.
just automatically improves.
work very hard to make it better,
努力去改善的时候才有可能。
by itself degrade, actually.
like Ancient Egypt,
they built these incredible aqueducts.
沟渠系统。
listening to you
things you've done,
double motivation on everything
双重动机,
for humanity's long-term good.
to do something exciting.
like you need the one to drive the other.
一个动机去主导另一个动机。
to have sustainable energy,
exciting cars to do it.
来达到这个目的。
about your newest thing,
this really cool brain-machine interface
人脑跟机器的接口
and telepathy and so forth.
like what you're saying is,
of beauty and inspiration
to happen inevitably.
是确定会发生的。
you dream this stuff,
你梦想的东西,
would dare dream,
would be capable of dreaming
is a really remarkable thing.
真的都很了不起。
to dream a bit bigger.
starts getting genuinely insane, right?
你们会提醒我的,对吧?
That was really, really fantastic.
这真的非常、非常的棒。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elon Musk - Serial entrepreneurElon Musk is the CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).
Why you should listen
At SpaceX, Musk oversees the development of rockets and spacecraft for missions to Earth orbit and ultimately to other planets. In 2008, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft won the NASA contract to provide cargo transport to space. In 2012, SpaceX became the first commercial company to dock with the International Space Station and return cargo to Earth with the Dragon.
At Tesla, Musk has overseen product development and design from the beginning, including the all-electric Tesla Roadster, Model S and Model X, and the rollout of Supercharger stations to keep the cars juiced up. (Some of the charging stations use solar energy systems from SolarCity, of which Musk is the non-executive chair.) Transitioning to a sustainable energy economy, in which electric vehicles play a pivotal role, has been one of his central interests for almost two decades. He co-founded PayPal and served as the company's chair and CEO.
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