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.
$蘋果(AAPL.US)$已經命名了凱文·林奇彭博新聞社(Bloomberg News)週四援引知情人士的話報道，作為其自動駕駛汽車項目的新任負責人，彭博新聞社(Bloomberg News)報道了這一消息。
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.
發生的事情：林奇的任命是作為對道格字段他本週早些時候離開了這家總部位於加利福尼亞州庫比蒂諾的公司加入$福特汽車(F.US)$作為其首席先進技術和嵌入式系統官。
Lynch joined Apple in 2013 to run the company’s smartwatch and health efforts. Prior to Apple, he was with software company $Adobe(ADBE.US)$.
林奇於2013年加入蘋果，負責該公司的智能手錶和健康方面的工作。在加入蘋果之前，他在一家軟件公司工作$Adobe(ADBE.US)$.
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.
報道稱，林奇今年早些時候開始參與蘋果的電動汽車項目--名為泰坦計劃(Project Titan)，細節尚未公佈，目前正在監督整個團隊。這包括硬件工程和自動駕駛汽車傳感器方面的工作。
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：林奇之前從未在汽車公司工作過。彭博社指出，他做了幾十年的軟件高管，並不是一個以監督硬件團隊而聞名的人。
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.
蘋果任命林奇為該汽車項目負責人的決定表明，這家科技巨頭仍然專注於基礎軟件和自動駕駛技術，而不是汽車的物理機械。
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，該項目的第一位經理是史蒂夫·扎德斯基(Steve Zadesky)，他職業生涯早期曾在福特擔任工程師。菲爾德是一名高級管理人員，$特斯拉(TSLA.US)$在接手蘋果項目之前。
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.
蘋果汽車項目的細節是保密的，蘋果尚未對此發表任何官方評論。據悉，該項目始於2014年。路透社(Reuters)去年報道稱，蘋果的目標是在2024年之前開始製造自動駕駛汽車。
Price Action: Apple shares closed 0.67% lower at $154.07 on Thursday.
價格行動：蘋果股價週四收低0.67%，報154.07美元。