And early in the COVID-19 pandemic, auto manufacturers canceled orders for microprocessors out of fear that car sales would plummet.

新冠疫情初期，汽车制造商由于担心汽车滞销而取消了对微处理器的订购。

Auto manufacturers, for example, are trying to use tiny devices that can sense when to release an airbag and how to keep engines and breaks operating efficiently.

例如，汽车制造商尝试使用小型设备感知何时释放安全气囊和如何保持引擎和刹车有效的运作。

But isn't it true that pretty much every auto manufacturer

我不知道。我不知道。

Well, as you might have guessed, Tesla isn't the largest auto manufacturer around, they just haven't been around for long enough.

好吧，正如您可能已经猜到的那样，特斯拉并不是周围最大的汽车制造商，他们只是存在的时间还不够长。

A bigger impact is associated with the fact that it`s estimated as many as three to four jobs are directly dependent on each job at an auto manufacturer.

据估计，汽车制造商的每个工作岗位直接决定着多达三到四个工作岗位。

In a rather telling moment, the three largest auto manufacturers in the United States testified to Congress adamant that these new rules were impossible to achieve.

在一个相当有说服力的时刻，美国三大汽车制造商向国会作证，坚称这些新规则是不可能实现的。

The United Auto Workers union warns that a historic industrial action will expand, and they will do whatever they have to do if the top three auto manufacturers do not raise their wage offers.

美国汽车工会警告说，一场历史性的工业行动将会扩大，如果三大汽车制造商不提高工资，他们将采取一切必要措施。

Honda is the eighth largest auto manufacturer on the planet, but interestingly, they make the most internal combustion engines of any company, clocking in at 14 million units last year.

本田是全球第八大汽车制造商， 但有趣的是，他们生产的内燃机数量是所有公司中最多的， 去年的产量为 1400 万台。

Even when some of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world said that the environmental regulations put upon them by the government was impossible, little Honda proved them all wrong through straight engineering.

即使世界上一些最大的汽车制造商表示政府对他们施加的环境法规是不可能的，但小本田通过直接工程证明他们都是错误的。

I mean, unfortunately, what you see is a lot of times the auto manufacturers will put really sophisticated types of ways of interacting with the vehicle, and they're not fully vetted to make sure that's actually a good way of doing it.

我的意思是，不幸的是，你看到的是很多时候汽车制造商会采用非常复杂的与车辆交互的方式，并且他们没有经过充分审查以确保这实际上是一种很好的方式。