另闢蹊徑! 亞馬遜或已開始無人機送貨測試!

Amazon Inc and the British government have announced a partnership to test the e-commerce giant's aerial drone parcel delivery technology.

近日，電商巨頭亞馬遜和英國政府宣佈合作測試該公司的無人機包裹投遞技術。

Supervised by the Civil Aviation Authority, the trial will test the drones when they are out of sight from operators, measure their ability to identify and avoid obstacles and gauge the success of operators flying multiple drones at once, Amazon said last Tuesday.

亞馬遜上週二表示，此次試驗將在英國民航局的監管下進行，對在操作員視線範圍以外的無人機進行測試，評估無人機識別、躲避障礙物的能力，衡量操作員同時操控多臺無人機的成敗狀況。

"We want to enable the innovation that arises from the development of drone technology by safely integrating drones into the overall aviation system," Tim Johnson, policy director at the CAA, said in the statement. "These tests by Amazon will help inform our policy and future approach."

民航局政策主任蒂姆·約翰遜在聲明中表示：“我們希望將無人機安全地整合到整個航空系統中，從而促進無人機技術的發展和創新，亞馬遜的這些測試將爲我們的政策和未來的落實方法提供很多有價值的信息。”

"The UK is a leader in enabling drone innovation," said Paul Misener, Amazon's vice-president of global policy. The deal "brings Amazon closer to our goal of using drones to safely deliver parcels in 30 minutes to customers in the UK and elsewhere around the world," he added.

亞馬遜全球公共政策副總裁保羅·米森納稱："英國是實現無人機創新的先驅。這項協議使亞馬遜距利用無人機在30分鐘內向英國及世界其它地區的顧客安全投遞包裹的目標又更近一步。"

In April, a U.K. government official criticized Amazon for not providing guidance about the safe operation of drones to customers. The company responded by saying such information was included on its website. Also that month, a British Airways pilot landing at London's Heathrow airport reported a drone had struck the airplane, an incident that hasn't been confirmed, although a number of near-misses in 2015 were acknowledged.

今年四月，一位英國政府官員批評亞馬遜沒有爲客戶提供無人機的安全操作的相關指導。該公司迴應稱，這些信息已經在其網站上進行了介紹。同樣是在四月，降落在倫敦希思羅機場的英國航空公司的一架飛機的飛行員報告稱，有一架無人機撞上了自己的飛機。儘管2015年曾有許多這種有驚無險的事件曝出，但是該事故並未被證實。