评论
打印
Would you trust a robot to park your car?
由一个机器人为你停车，你敢吗？
The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the city's first robotic parking opens in Chinatown.
今年二月，当纽约的第一家机器人停车场在中国城正式开放以后，纽约人便将切实面对这一问题。
The technology has been successfully applied overseas,
该技术已在海外得到成功应用，
but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome,
但由于技术问题，美国的另一家机器人公共车库却遭遇重重问题，
dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical problems.
经常出现汽车掉落或汽车被困的情况。
Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown garage are confident with the technology,
尽管如此，中国城的机器人车库开发商却对这项技术自信满满，
and are counting on it to squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-building basement that would otherwise fit only 24,
他们还指望着这项技术能通过取消一般停车场所需的移动空间，
accomplished by removing a maneuver space normally required.
将67辆汽车塞进一个原本只能停放24辆车的公寓楼地下车库。
A human-shaped robot won't be stepping into your car to drive it.
不会有任何人形机器人驾驶你的爱车。
Rather, the garage itself does the parking.
整个停车过程由车库本身完成。
The driver stops the car on a flat platform and gets out.
司机将车停在一个平坦的平台上，然后下车。
The platform is lowered into the garage,
这个平台会沉降至车库内，
and it is then transported to a vacant parking space by a computer-controlled device similar to an elevator that also runs sideways.
然后通过一个由电脑控制的、类似于电梯的设备运送到一个空闲的停车位。
There is no human supervision,
整个过程没有人工监督，
but an attendant will be on hand to accept cash and explain the system to new users.
但现场会有一名服务员收取现金，并向新用户作系统方面的说明。
Parking rates will be attracted about $400 monthly or $25 per day,
根据阿里·米尔斯顿，停车费将约为每月400美金或每日25美金。
according to Ari Milstein, the director of planning for Automation Parking Systems, which is the U.S. subsidiary of a German company.
阿里·米尔斯顿是一家位于美国的德国公司子公司“自动停车系统开发有限公司”的策划总监。
This company has built automated garages in several countries overseasand in the United States for residents of a Washington, D.C. apartment building.
该公司已在海外多个国家以及美国华盛顿某幢居民楼建造了自动化车库。
