美国有线新闻 CNN 特斯拉再发生致命车祸 事发时驾驶座无人（在线收听）

Next, a crash and a controversy involving electric car maker Tesla.

下则新闻来关注一场车祸和涉及电动汽车制造商特斯拉的争议。

Investigators are trying to figure out what caused the fatal wreck of a 2019 Tesla model S last Saturday in Texas.

调查人员正试图找出上周六在得克萨斯州发生的2019款特斯拉Model S致命事故的原因。

Both of its passengers were killed when the car apparently failed to drive around a curve.

显然，这辆车没能绕过弯道，致车上两名乘客全部丧生。

It went off the road and hit some trees. Police say neither of the people inside was in the driver's seat.

汽车偏离道路，撞到了树上。警方称驾驶座上没有人。

One was sitting in the back and one was in the front passenger seat.

车上有两人，一人坐在后排，另一人坐在前排乘客位。

One question is whether Tesla's autopilot feature was turned on.

其中一个问题是，特斯拉的自动驾驶功能是否开启。

The company's CEO Elon Musk says it wasn't based on information gathered so far

该公司首席执行官埃隆·马斯克表示，基于目前收集到的信息，事发时自动驾驶功能并未开启，

and that the street the car was driving on didn't have the lane lines needed to turn on standard autopilot.

而且这辆车行驶的路段没有开启标准自动驾驶仪所需的车道线。

But if it wasn't turned on, what drove the car at what police called a high rate of speed?

但如果自动驾驶仪没有开启，那是谁在以警方所称的“高速”驾驶汽车呢？

Tesla's autopilot feature has been blamed as a factor in several deaths since it was introduced in 2015.

自2015年推出以来，特斯拉的自动驾驶功能一直被认为是导致多人死亡的因素之一。

The company's website says autopilot does not make its cars autonomous and still requires active driver supervision.

该公司的网站显示，自动驾驶仪不能使其汽车自动驾驶，仍然需要司机主动进行监控。

But hours before the accident, Musk had tweeted that autopilot was several times safer than human drivers.

但在事故发生前几个小时，马斯克曾在推特上表示，自动驾驶仪比人类驾驶安全好几倍。

Federal investigators are examining the cars operations and the long lasting fire that followed the crash.

联邦调查人员正在检查涉事车辆的运行情况及车祸引发的持续火灾。