另辟蹊径! 亚马逊或已开始无人机送货测试!

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

近日，电商巨头亚马逊和英国政府宣布合作测试该公司的无人机包裹投递技术。

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.

亚马逊上周二表示，此次试验将在英国民航局的监管下进行，对在操作员视线范围以外的无人机进行测试，评估无人机识别、躲避障碍物的能力，衡量操作员同时操控多台无人机的成败状况。

"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·约翰逊在声明中表示：“我们希望将无人机安全地整合到整个航空系统中，从而促进无人机技术的发展和创新，亚马逊的这些测试将为我们的政策和未来的落实方法提供很多有价值的信息。”

"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.

亚马逊全球公共政策副总裁保罗·米森纳称："英国是实现无人机创新的先驱。这项协议使亚马逊距利用无人机在30分钟内向英国及世界其它地区的顾客安全投递包裹的目标又更近一步。"

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，一位英国政府官员批评亚马逊没有为客户提供无人机的安全操作的相关指导。该公司回应称，这些信息已经在其网站上进行了介绍。同样是在四月，降落在伦敦希思罗机场的英国航空公司的一架飞机的飞行员报告称，有一架无人机撞上了自己的飞机。尽管2015年曾有许多这种有惊无险的事件曝出，但是该事故并未被证实。