优步与沃尔沃合作开发自动驾驶车_BEC初级作文

优步与沃尔沃合作开发自动驾驶车

“我们把这看成一段长期行业伙伴关系的第一步，”沃尔沃首席执行官霍坎•萨穆埃尔松(Hakan Samuelsson)告诉英国《金融时报》。他补充到，智能地图可能是两家公司未来合作的另一个领域。

The acquisition of Otto will heighten Uber’s driverless competition with Google owner Alphabet, at a time when Google’s own head of driverless technology has recently left. Otto was founded by several prominent ex-Alphabet employees including Anthony Levandowski.

谷歌(Google)自己的无人驾驶技术主管不久前离职，优步在这样一个时候收购奥托(Otto)，会加剧优步在无人驾驶方面与谷歌(Google)的东家Alphabet的竞争。奥托正是由包括安东尼•列万多夫斯基(Anthony Levandowski)在内的几位杰出的Alphabet前员工创立的。

Uber’s effort to develop driverless cars began last year, when it poached dozens of researchers from the robotics department of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and set up its own research centre in the city.

优步开发无人驾驶汽车的努力始于去年。当时，它从位于匹兹堡的卡内基梅隆大学(Carnegie Mellon University)的机器人系挖走了数十名研究人员，并在该市成立了自己的研究中心。

Otto’s investors will receive an equity stake in Uber of slightly less than 1 per cent, as well as 20 per cent of profits from Uber’s future trucking business.