Apple Car said to get a new chief: what you need to know
Apple Car said to get a new chief: what you need to know
$Apple(AAPL.US)$ has named Kevin Lynch as the new head of its self-driving car project, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
$苹果(AAPL.US)$已经命名了凯文·林奇彭博新闻社(Bloomberg News)周四援引知情人士的话报道，作为其自动驾驶汽车项目的新任负责人，彭博新闻社(Bloomberg News)报道了这一消息。
What Happened: Lynch’s appointment comes as a replacement for Doug Field who left the Cupertino, California-based company earlier this week to join $Ford Motor(F.US)$ as its chief advanced technology and embedded systems officer.
发生的事情：林奇的任命是作为对道格字段他本周早些时候离开了这家总部位于加利福尼亚州库比蒂诺的公司加入$福特汽车(F.US)$作为其首席先进技术和嵌入式系统官。
Lynch joined Apple in 2013 to run the company’s smartwatch and health efforts. Prior to Apple, he was with software company $Adobe(ADBE.US)$.
林奇于2013年加入苹果，负责该公司的智能手表和健康方面的工作。在加入苹果之前，他在一家软件公司工作$Adobe(ADBE.US)$.
As per the report, Lynch started working on Apple's electric car project — known as Project Titan, the details of which have not been announced — earlier this year and is now overseeing the entire group. This includes hardware engineering and works on self-driving car sensors.
报道称，林奇今年早些时候开始参与苹果的电动汽车项目--名为泰坦计划(Project Titan)，细节尚未公布，目前正在监督整个团队。这包括硬件工程和自动驾驶汽车传感器方面的工作。
Why It Matters: Lynch has never worked at a car company before. He has been a software executive for decades and is not someone who is known for overseeing hardware teams, Bloomberg noted.
重要的原因：林奇之前从未在汽车公司工作过。彭博社指出，他做了几十年的软件高管，并不是一个以监督硬件团队而闻名的人。
Apple's decision to name Lynch as the head of the car project indicates the tech giant is still focused on the underlying software and self-driving technology instead of the vehicle’s physical mechanics.
苹果任命林奇为该汽车项目负责人的决定表明，这家科技巨头仍然专注于基础软件和自动驾驶技术，而不是汽车的物理机械。
In contrast, the first manager on the project was Steve Zadesky who was an engineer at Ford earlier in his career. The field was a senior executive at $Tesla(TSLA.US)$ before taking over the Apple project.
相比之下，该项目的第一位经理是史蒂夫·扎德斯基(Steve Zadesky)，他职业生涯早期曾在福特担任工程师。菲尔德是一名高级管理人员，$特斯拉(TSLA.US)$在接手苹果项目之前。
Details on Apple’s car project, which is known to have started in 2014, are hush-hush and Apple has not made any official comment on it yet. Reuters reported last year that Apple aims to start making self-driving cars by 2024.
苹果汽车项目的细节是保密的，苹果尚未对此发表任何官方评论。据悉，该项目始于2014年。路透社(Reuters)去年报道称，苹果的目标是在2024年之前开始制造自动驾驶汽车。
Price Action: Apple shares closed 0.67% lower at $154.07 on Thursday.
价格行动：苹果股价周四收低0.67%，报154.07美元。