马斯克出席时代年度人物颁奖礼，1岁儿子成功抢镜【精英】（订阅+关注，五星好评）

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【主讲人】 埃隆·马斯克 Elon Musk
SpaceX CEO兼CTO、特斯拉CEO、太阳城董事会主席。2021年3月以1.28万亿元人民币财富登顶《2021胡润全球富豪榜》，首次成为世界首富。2021年12月获得《时代》周刊2021年度人物。

【背景介绍】

当地时间12月13日，刚刚获得《时代》周刊2021年度人物的马斯克抱着1岁小儿子X AE A-Xii Musk现身颁奖现场并接受了现场采访，以下为采访新闻通稿。采访中他说（电动）汽车和火星是他最重要的工作，期间也聊到了新能源和Space X的话题。

【双语演讲稿】

— What's more important, rockets or cars? Actually, that's a good first question.

— 火箭和车哪个更重要？第一个问题问这个很不错。

— Well, I guess they're both important. I guess my career is Mars and cars.

— 我觉得两个都很重要，我的事业就是火星和车。

— Mars and cars.

— 火星和车。

— I think we need to transition to sustainable energy and become a spacefaring civilization.

— 我觉得我们要向可持续能源转型，成为航天文明。

— Starting with space, why haven't you gone... You know, Bezos went up, Branson went up. Do you want to go up? Is that on your to-do list in 22 or how do you think about that yourself?

— 我们先聊聊太空。你为什么不去……贝索斯上去了，布兰森上去了，你想上去吗？你有没有把飞天放到自己的2022待办事项里？或者你自己是如何考虑的？

— I'll go up at some point, but there is an unlike philosophy by which I aspire to guide my actions. And that is to take the set of actions that maximize the probability that the future is good, and hopefully not pave the road to hell with good intentions.

— 我会上去的，但是有一种不同的思想，我希望用这种思想来指导我的行动。那就是，采取的行动要能够最大限度地使未来变得美好，而且最好不会让你好心没好报。

The point of Space X is to help make humanity a space-faring civilization and ultimately a multi-planet species, so as to expand the scope and scale of consciousness, and ultimately better understand what questions to ask about the answer, which is the universe.

Space X的意义在于使人类成为太空文明，最终成为多行星物种，从而扩大人类的认知范围和认知规模，最终更好地理解如何提出问题，找到“什么是宇宙”这一问题的答案。

— Switching to risk in the context of Tesla and auto pilot, auto driving, one of our competitors had a big piece on that this weekend, and it's not all the way thought through and it's back to risk. How do you think about? Obviously, that's not zero risk either. You're paving the way in that area.

— 我们再来谈谈特斯拉和自动驾驶，我们的一个竞争对手这周末在这方面有了大动作，但并没有完全考虑清楚，又回到了风险问题上。你怎么看？自动驾驶显然也不是零风险，你正在给这个领域铺路。

— Autonomy is an incredibly important innovation because people spend many hours a week, ultimately, months of their lives, probably, in cars and stuck in traffic. And then there's a lot of people that die in auto accidents. Worldwide there's about a million automotive deaths per year, the vast majority of which are due to driver error. So if we have autonomy, that would potentially save on the order of a million lives per year. And there's about 10 million serious accidents where there is a permanent injury per year. 

— 自动驾驶是一项非常重要的创新，因为人们每周花很多时间、一生可能要花数月时间在车里，在堵车中。而且死于车祸的人很多，每年世界上约有100万人死于车祸，其中绝大多数是由于驾驶员失误造成的。因此，如果我们拥有自动驾驶，每年可能会挽救100万人的生命。而且每年大约有1000万起严重事故，会造成永久性伤害。

I guess one of those things were you're not gonna get rewarded necessarily for lives that you save, but you will definitely be blamed for lives that you don't save. There was something somebody said to me at beginning of when we were prusuing autonomy. He said that even if you save 90% of the lives, the 10% that you don't save are gonna sue you.

我觉得有一点就是，你不一定会因为挽救的生命而获得奖励，但肯定会因为没有挽救的生命而受到指责。我们刚开始做自动驾驶时，有人跟我说过一句话，他说，就算你挽救了90%的生命，没有挽救的10%也会起诉你。

— Right. A lot of people are worried about democracy, the future of democracy, the state of democracy, part of that's tied to silicon valley. 

— 对。很多人担心民主，民主的未来，民主的现状，这部分与硅谷有关。

— We have democracy? 

— 我们有民主吗？

— Well, I don't know. My question is are you worried about democracy.

— 呃，我不知道。我想问你担心不担心民主的问题。

— Where?

— 哪里的民主？

— Here. For a start, here. 

— 我们这儿的，就先说我们这儿的民主。

— These things are going ok in the grand scheme of things. It's easy to complain, but the fact of the matter is this is the most prosperous time in human history. But people's expectations always adjust to... However good things get, people's expectations will always kind of recalibrate to how things are. But if we stand back and say, like, okey, is there really some point in history where you'd rather be? By the way, have you actually read history? This wasn't great. So I think we should be probably happier with the way things are than maybe sometimes people are.

— 从大局来看，民主方面一切都好。抱怨很容易，但其实这是人类历史上最繁荣的时期。但是人们总是会调整自己的期望.....无论现状变得多好，人们总是会根据现状调整自己的期望。但是，如果我们退一步讲，历史上真的有某个时刻你宁愿呆在那里吗？顺便问一下，你真的读过历史吗？这不太好。所以我觉得我们有时候应该更加满足现有的状态。