FRANKFURT — WHETHER or not Apple’s secretivecar project ever leads to an actual automobile, the technology company has already had aprofound effect on the vehicle business.

法兰克福——不管苹果公司藏而不露的汽车研发项目未来是否真的会让它生产某款汽车，这家科技公司都已经对汽车行业产生了深远的影响。

The mere knowledge that Apple has a team of several hundred people working on car designschanged the conversation this week at the Frankfurt International Motor Show. Along withGoogle, Apple has focused the minds of auto executives on the challenge posed by newtechnologies that have the potential to disrupt traditional auto industry hierarchies.

仅仅是知道苹果有一个几百人的团队在做汽车设计方面的研发，就足以改变人们在本周举行的法兰克福国际车展(Frankfurt International Motor Show )上谈论的话题。苹果，再加上谷歌，让汽车公司的高管们把注意力都放在了新技术带来的挑战上，这些新技术有可能会打破汽车行业的传统实力格局。

This year, “connectivity has supplanted “horsepower or “torque as the prevailing buzzwordin Frankfurt. The talk is of self-driving cars, battery-powered cars and information technologydesigned to link cars with data networks to make driving safer and more efficient.

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