特斯拉怼上美交安委，双方口水战日益升级

围绕一名苹果公司工程师的车祸死亡，特斯拉与全美交通安全委员会的口水战已经上升到了新高度，双方各自发布了一系列针锋相对的声明。下面我们就按时间顺序，看看事发后两家各自的公开表态。

3月23日：一位名叫黄伟的38岁的苹果公司工程师驾驶着他的特斯拉Model X轿车，在加州山景城撞上高速隔离带后死亡。

3月27日：全美交通安全委员会派出两名调查员勘查现场，并在推特上指出：“目前尚不清楚车祸时自动控制系统是否处于激活状态。”

3月27日：特斯拉就此事发表了首篇博文：《关于上周的事件我们所知的信息》。文中称，特斯拉尚未恢复黄伟所驾驶车辆的计算机日志信息，并称事故路段损坏的道路隔离带才是造成此次惨剧的罪魁祸首。特斯拉公司还表示，美国政府一年前就曾证实，自动驾驶可以使交通事故率下降达40%。不过这个数据其实是来自全美公路交通安全管理局的一份报告，而且有些专家认为报告中的数据存在误导性。特斯拉还在博文中写道：“出于对客户及其家庭的隐私的尊重，在调查有结果之前，我们不打算公开任何额外细节。”

3月30日：特斯拉在周五晚发表了第二篇博文，承认在车辆失事时，车上的Autopilot辅助驾驶软件已经介入了。文中指出：“经检测，在碰撞发生前，驾驶员已收到数次视觉信号提醒和一次语音提醒，但在碰撞发生前6秒钟内，驾驶员的双手都没有放到方向盘上。”

4月1日：全美交通安全委员会的一位发言人对记者表示，该机构“对特斯拉公布的调查信息感到不满”。根据该委员会的规定，未经其许可，在事件调查其内，受调查的企业不得将事件信息向公众公开。

4月2日：特斯拉CEO埃隆·马斯克在推特上谈及此次调查：

埃隆·马斯克非常尊重全美交通安全委员会，但是美国负责车辆管理的部门是公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA），不是交通安全委员会（NTSB），后者只是一个咨询机构。特斯拉迅速公布了关乎公共安全的重要碰撞数据，以后也会一直这样做，否则就是对公共安全不负责。

——埃隆·马斯克

4月9日：据全美交通安全委员会披露，该委员会主席罗伯特·萨姆沃特在此前一周的周末与马斯克进行了对话。该委员会的发言人表示，萨姆沃特称，这次对话“很有建设性”。

4月10日：特斯拉发表一份声明，称此次事故是由车主黄伟的责任导致的，并否认其对此次事件承担有任何道德或法律责任。

“据黄先生的家人称，他很清楚Autopilot并不完美，特别是他曾告诉家人，自动驾驶在事发路段尤其不可靠，但他还是在那个路段使用了自动驾驶。事发当天天气晴好，前方能见度可达数百英尺。唯一可能导致事故的原因，就是黄先生没有留心路况，尽管车子已经进行了数次报警。”

4月11日：特斯拉表示退出与全美交通安全委员会的关于参与后者调查的协议。“我们认为透明度十分重要，因此，这样一份使信息在一年多的时间里无法公开的协议是无法接受的。”

4月12日：全美交通安全委员会发表声明称，它将不再接受特斯拉参与它对此次交通事故的调查。“全美交通安全委员会之所以采取此举，是因为特斯拉未经全美交通安全委员会的审查与确认，先行布发了调查信息，违反了参与协议。”该机构还公布了一封其主席写给马斯克的信。

4月12日：特斯拉再次发表声明，强调它已退出与全美交通安全委员会的协议。

“通过我们与交通安全委员会的对话，明显可以看出，他们更关心怎样上媒体的头条，而不是真正促进安全。在调查中，他们反复违反自己设定的原则，向媒体披露片面支离的信息，同时试图阻止我们告诉大家真相。我们认为这种做法是错误的，而且我们将正式向国会发起投诉。我们还要根据《信息自由法案》让他们做出回答，他们跟全美最安全的汽车过不去，背后的真正原因是什么，为什么不把精力放在那些最不安全的汽车上。或许他们的这种做法也是有坚实依据的，但我们实在不能想象这是为什么。”

4月13日：在接CBS电视台早间新闻采访时，马斯克再次强调，全美交通安全委员会的调查对于特斯拉来说太拖延了。“我们不能等一年再公布信息，那太久了。”他还坚称，黄伟那辆失事Model X上的Autopilot系统与公司此前声明中描述的一致，它是不能完全自动驾驶的，仍然需要驾驶员手动操作。在谈到Autopilot时，马斯克表示：“我们有必要强调，我们永远都不是完美的。但我的确认为，长期看来，它能使交通事故下降10倍。”（财富中文网）

译者：朴成奎 

Tesla Inc.’s ongoing spat with the National Transportation Safety Board over a fatal crash has reached new heights, with the electric-car maker and the safety agency releasing dueling statements. Here’s a timeline of public remarks so far by Tesla and the NTSB.

March 23: Walter Huang, a 38-year-old Apple Inc. engineer, dies after his Model X crashes into highway barrier in Mountain View, California.

March 27: The NTSB sends two investigators to the crash scene and notes on Twitter: “Unclear if automated control system was active at time of crash.”

March 27: Tesla releases its first blog post, “What We Know About Last Week’s Accident,” saying it hasn’t been able to retrieve computer logs from Huang’s vehicle and blames the damaged highway safety barrier for the severity of the crash. Tesla also claims the U.S. government found a year ago that Autopilot reduced crash rates by 40 percent, a characterization of data from a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report that some safety experts call misleading. “Out of respect for the privacy of our customer and his family, we do not plan to share any additional details until we conclude the investigation,” Tesla writes.

March 30: Tesla releases a second blog post late on Friday night that acknowledges its driver-assistance software, Autopilot, had been engaged at the time of the crash. “The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision,” Tesla writes.

April 1: An NTSB spokesman tells reporters that the agency is “unhappy with the release of investigative information by Tesla.” The agency’s protocols require companies who are a party to an agency accident investigation to not release details about the incident to the public without NTSB’s approval.

April 2: Tesla CEO Elon Musk discusses the investigation on Twitter:

Elon Musk @elonmusk @TeslaMotorsClub Lot of respect for NTSB, but NHTSA regulates cars, not NTSB, which is an advisory body. Tesla rele… https://t.co/RStKMakag1

Lot of respect for NTSB, but NHTSA regulates cars, not NTSB, which is an advisory body. Tesla releases critical crash data affecting public safety immediately & always will. To do otherwise would be unsafe.

— Elon Musk

April 9: NTSB discloses agency Chairman Robert Sumwalt spoke to Musk over the preceding weekend. An agency spokesman said Sumwalt described the conversation as “very constructive.”

April 10: Tesla puts out a statement that faults Mr. Huang and denies moral or legal liability for the crash.

“According to the family, Mr. Huang was well aware that Autopilot was not perfect and, specifically, he told them it was not reliable in that exact location, yet he nonetheless engaged Autopilot at that location. The crash happened on a clear day with several hundred feet of visibility ahead, which means that the only way for this accident to have occurred is if Mr. Huang was not paying attention to the road, despite the car providing multiple warnings to do so.”

April 11: Tesla says it has withdrawn from its party agreement with the NTSB: “We believe in transparency, so an agreement that prevents public release of information for over a year is unacceptable.”

April 12: NTSB releases a statement saying it had removed Tesla as a party to its crash investigation. “The NTSB took this action because Tesla violated the party agreement by releasing investigative information before it was vetted and confirmed by the NTSB.” The agency also releases a letter from its chairman to Musk.

April 12: Tesla releases another statement, again claiming to have withdrawn from its agreement with the NTSB.

“It’s been clear in our conversations with the NTSB that they’re more concerned with press headlines than actually promoting safety. Among other things, they repeatedly released partial bits of incomplete information to the media in violation of their own rules, at the same time that they were trying to prevent us from telling all the facts. We don’t believe this is right and we will be making an official complaint to Congress. We will also be issuing a Freedom Of Information Act request to understand the reasoning behind their focus on the safest cars in America while they ignore the cars that are the least safe. Perhaps there is a sound rationale for this, but we cannot imagine what that could possibly be.”

April 13: CBS This Morning airs an interview with Musk, who reiterates that NTSB’s investigations are too protracted for Tesla: “We can’t wait for a year to release information. That’s way too long.” He also insists that Autopilot worked as described in Huang’s Model X, which was as a hands-on system that isn’t capable of self-driving. “It’s important to emphasize that we’ll never be perfect,” Musk says of Autopilot. “But I do think that, long-term, it can reduce accidents by a factor of 10.”